LOL...somebody remind me to tell an old customer (a world-renowned violin maker) that The Great Swami Audiophile Known As Ter divined he should immediately stop voicing his creations based on analysis through briks as well as listening to classical music through them for work and pleasure.
I stand by my opinion. My classical music listening is about 98% to 2% pop. and over long periods every day. I am certainly familiar with the quirks and presentation of various speaker designs dating back to the earliest days of stereo.
(1) The subject was originally 'about bass'. The last time I can remember: I do not think any person had ever claimed violins - produced bass. Though I have found it ridiculously funny when I have seen people reproducing solo violin with a couple of oven- sized mono -block amps with fans. One immediately thought "Oh! the big earnest endeavor behind all that effort, to reproduce perhaps one sound watt"
(2) It has been known for 'yonks' that some musicians can appreciate music through less than ideal speakers. They tend to automatically compensate for sound reproduction shortcomings.
(3) The greatest disappointment with Briks........so much , one can assume - went into the design... they were an expensive model, they are large and have plenty of physical weight in the cabinet. They require very sizable amplification, and yet 'they blew it'- as far as the final result goes..
(4) Where is the 'contrapuntal dancing spring and agility' in its reproduction? That is, a fully balanced relationship between its bottom, middle and top ...to give listeners ...a sense of 'instant delighted surprise' every time they are turned on. That is what a buyer pays for ,and has a right to demand in that price league. To stop confusion -I am not talking in terms, about modern music 'simple footie tapping'.
(5) Discernible coloration in a classical speaker.... a potential buyer might as
well go to their 'High St' and buy something on offer- saving a heck of a lot of money.
(6) It is far better to buy a clean bookshelf speaker that misses the last bottom octave or so, than put up with muddy dirge-like barking bass thrown in, on top of the rest of the sound spectrum. By some large speaker that falls short of its low bass aims to 'hover and purr a firm bass foundation' rather than giving the impression it is like: ' a sluggish heavy flow of half -melted chocolate' Otherwise, it becomes a total lose-lose situation, all round.
(7)An option: Buy a good sub woofer to tack onto a clean bookshelf. It is a lot lot cheaper proposition. At least, if the bass ever got a little muddy at times on some classical material... it would be easier to solve the problem - by just tuning it down or turning off the added sub.