Do you have any idea what does the user mean by warm music? I like warm things in life, like a warm light, warm water, warm surroundings, warm food, and most others; sort of a lazy, indulgent kind here. So something clicks that I woudl better go for warm music also.Amer
AFAIK "warm" is a coloration that generally suggests some sort of mid-bass or lower midrange bump which de-emphasizes more higher frequencies.
The difference between all of those things you listed and a speaker, is their function. Warm food is meant to be warm, but you wouldn't leave ice cream lying around in the sun, would you? You don't want the polar ice caps to melt, do you? Likewise, in the case of a speaker, its job is to reproduce a studio performance. If it's an energetic song, you don't want your speaker to take its energy away. Likewise, if it's a calming, soothing song, it has natural warmth already. You don't want to make it more calming, for fear of falling asleep to good music. You want to hear a speaker as it was made - think of it as a pair of glasses. You wouldn't walk around with a pair of sunglasses on indoors, would you? Sure sunglasses have their purpose, but wheras we can't control how bright the sun is, we can certainly control our tastes in music.
Your goal for a speaker should be tonal neutrality and relatively flat frequency response in a well treated listening room. Said speakers may in fact be considered "bright" in some rooms simply because of how higher frequencies in the 5-8khz range interact with hard surfaces and effectively increase their intensity. Only in rooms like this would a "warm" speaker have much value IMO, but even then, It'd be a much wiser decision to go with the accurate speaker, and make the inaccurate room more accurate, than go with an inaccurate room and an innacurate speaker and expect to be able to balance the two into a "0". It's not -1 and +1 here, it's probably more like -3 and +5 you're trying to balance. Also, a well-treated room might be a bit deader in real life, but if the speaker has an accurate tweeter and accurate subwoofers and you're fairly on-axis, you'll hear it as it's meant to be heard, since things like room reflections etc should already be in any recording. If you like warm music, then listen to warm music, not bright music through a warm speaker. Imagine EQing some heavy metal in order to make it relaxing... kind of defeating the purpose no?
In fact, returning to the very first post in this thread, you mentioned how you discovered bose speakers actually ain't so great. You can think of Bose speakers as being cathedral stained glass (or a circus mirror). Sure it might impress someone... but you don't want to look through it, do you(or use it to check your reflection in the morning)?
Even with many general, good-sounding speaker brands, they may emphasize some frequenciesz You can think of a warm speaker as being tinted glass... the warmer, the more tinted. You might miss out on some things because it's only going to show you what it wants to show you.
You can think of a bright speaker as being a really reflective piece of glass in front of you.
All you want to see is what's on the other side of that piece of glass, not a reflecion on the glass or "only some parts" of what's behind it. It might mean you'll see something behind the glass that's not exciting, but that's not the glass's fault, is it?
The truth is, speakers IMO are a tool. The music is what we want to listen to, and if the tool gives us the music in its least altered form, hey, it's a great tool.
