Sally, welcome. I don't like "bright-type" speakers and that's one of the reasons that I chose Axiom M22s for most of my classical music listening. The neutrality of their frequency response appealed to me and I've been completely satisfied in the three years that I've had them. If on rare occasions I'd be listening to some poorly-recorded pop item which was intentionally mastered "hot" or "bright" so as to sound more impressive on mediocre speakers, the solution was to use the tone controls to partially correct the problem , rather than to listen on a less accurate speaker.
