Your absolutely right, it is fascinating. At least I seem to be fascinated. I talk to my family about different speaker's characteristic sounds and I can tell they don't relate to my obsession. I would have never believed that room treatments and even moving a set of speakers to a different room would affect the sound, but recently I experienced this. I used to think that my son's PSB 5ts were extremely harsh in the high end. After he moved out of the basement and moved into his own house, I had a chance to hear the 5ts again. They sounded completely different. What I had once considered shrill now sounded extremely mellow to me.
