Perhaps I am not explaining myself clearly enough!
My aim in choosing a pair of speakers is not necessarily to hear what the mixing engineer hears, or even to replicate the exact sound from the concert hall. My room isn’t big enough! My aim is to get the sensation of having the musicians in front of me as a convincing illusion without the distraction of thinking the sound is coming from a pair of loudspeakers. Think Proust and his Madeleine cake; something that triggers a memory and brings it into the present as opposed to being the memory. As a visiting friend, scientist and regular concert goer said when I had both Dutch & Dutch and MBLs in the room was that the sound from the D&D were very impressive but that the MBLs sounded musical, as in it was like listening to the real thing.
Get that sensation of having music being played in front of you and any arguments of how it measures, or whether it is high fidelity, become an irrelevance. A lot depends on genre; when I listen to rock, pop and some jazz, what I am describing is less important for me and I would possibly go for the more technically impressive D&D. Unfortunately they didn’t convince with the genre I listen to the most, and MBL and Quads, both with sub are good enough (actually far more than good enough) for my occasional listens to King Crimson, Cream or LED Zeppelin.
I really wanted the D&D to work for me as they are much easier to accommodate in the room, not having to be located six feet from the wall behind. I can fully understand that the sound they give could well be more convincing for some people than dipoles or omnis. Our perception of sound is individual to each of us which is why we choose different ways of achieving sound reproduction in our home. In essence it is subjective.
All my comments are IME and IMHO. It is not a statement of fact that will apply to everyone else and so Possibly irrelevant to some contributors here!
For reference in reaching my “current” conclusion I have owned B&W, PMC, LS50, Meridian, BKS, Monitor Audio, ”conventional” style speakers and Quad 57s, 63s and 2812, Apogee hybrid, Martin Logan Aerius, Ascent and Electromotion ESL, MBL126. In the past year I have had Dutch and Dutch in the house and lengthy auditions of Kii and B&O 50. The most technically impressive from an objective point of view were probably the D&D. The ones that sounded most like having music played in front of me were the MBLs. The Quad 2812s came the closest to having the virtues of D&D and MBL in that they reproduce the detail present in the recording whilst still not sounding so much like a speaker but like hearing music. Ideally, I could do with a wider room and probably a pair of MBL 101e. The first isn’t going to happen because I like where I live and those 101s are hideously expensive. Mind you, if I hadn’t spent so much discovering what works for me I would have enough cash to buy a pair!