I have to agree...classical is the bees knees but pop and rock don't hold a candle to my veras.
This is very enlightening, but when you say better audio system, you don't necessarily mean better audio components...just that the components have been specifically chosen and tuned to this particular listening space. I guess this goes to show how the whole isn't always the sum of its parts. Now...how can I recreate this experience in my home outside of hiring audio engineers from KEF?
Perhaps radial speakers?
All good audio systems are the sum of intelligent compromise.
As for the components don't discount the possibility of the audio components being very high grade in your car. In my Equinox, the car a an inverter, and multiple high quality amps for each frequency band and a very powerful amp for the sub. This is the stock system for the LTZ.
As far as getting the experience in the home it takes a very good speaker system with at least two speakers and generally a couple of subs, unless the the speakers are truly full range. Those speakers are very rare and usually DIY like mine.
The subs need to be well integrated.
Then you need enough clean power to drive it to concert hall levels.
I don't know your speakers and can't find specs. Every review says what you do about these speakers: - "highly detailed." This may or may not be a red flag, but a lot of highly detailed speakers have major problems.
Pictures show those speakers to be very small. I would guess their F3 is 60 Hz which would be too high for the realistic reproduction of classical music without a sub.
For most classical music you need a 3db point of around 30 Hz, if you want to add large pipe organs to the mix and works that include them, then you need around 20 Hz.
The frequency response should be very smooth without peaks and valleys through out the range. The off axis response, should at at least mirror the on axis response even if not extending as high.
Now in a car you are in the near field and the speakers are against a flat surface generally.
Now in a home speaker, we usually have a narrow fronted cabinet in the room. So we get the issue of transition form a half space radiator to a full space radiator. The speaker rolls off 6 db per octave below that point. That point is determined by the width of the front baffle. From pictures I'd say for yours that is somewhere around 650 Hz. This has to be compensated for in the crossover. It requires dropping the impedance of the speaker, and the driver has to handle more power and suck ti from the amp. For a small bookshelf, complete BSC is almost impossible. For classical music getting this right is vital, otherwise strings, woodwind, brass and pianos are not properly balanced. Speakers with no or inadequate BSC often sound highly detailed.
The next issue is that the BSC required depends not just on the speaker, but room placement. Most speakers are designed for speakers to be about 14" from the adjacent room boundaries.
I have a system in mine where the BSC is active though electronic crossovers, and BSC can be set precisely for position and room.
Realistically reproducing a symphony orchestra, chamber groups, singers, pianos and pipe organs in the home is a tough challenge and achieved with a wide variety if success.
In conclusion, I would say your first steps are to optimize the position of your speakers in the room and add at least one sub and probably two properly integrated.
If you don't like the sound then, it is time to go speaker shopping.
