Tony L
Administrator
IMO a good component won't be "too revealing" of bad recordings, indeed they should sound better and more listenable. That's certainly been my experience, and I generally take "too revealing" to be a euphemism for something negative (I've not heard the Kiis myself so I have no opinion).
That is certainly my view, and it has to be pointed out that a studio monitor is designed to be very revealing as you are looking to find fault and correct it at the time of creation/mixing. A hi-fi system needs to play by slightly different rules IMO as no way do I want a system to tell me not to play Charlie Parker because Diana Krall is just so much better recorded. By saying that I do like studio monitors a lot and have a huge pair of Lockwoods in my living room, I just choose to domesticate them a little with a nice valve preamp (which was also very successful with some MEG actives I owned for a while), and a friend does similar with BBC active Rogers 5/8s.