Best bookshelf speakers for mids & highs $300-$400

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I don't often have discussions with people about warm or cold sound. On the forums some try and attribute this to electronics and my brain just shuts down

The songs are likely to sound like my laptop speakers, which doesn't convey much at all so I usually don't bother listening on my laptop. Just for you, I'd say the Vega song doesn't have the high end content the Simply Red tune has, at least in the beginnings of each track as that's all I had tolerance for with my laptop speakers

I used AirPlay from my phone to my system and found the first track might be classified as “warm”. However the second one, I didn’t find cold, but as Hd said had more mid/treble content, and reverb. That’s just because of the instruments used in the recording and how it was produced. Lack of reverb can also make songs “warmer”.

Yep, I agree. perhaps not cold, but Simply Red would be colder or less warm. I'd be amazed if anyone truly thought different.

But I'm not pushing this, it's just a comment.