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It just amazing me that anyone would remotely suggest that there is no room for improvement - with regards to anything.
And it amazes ME that anyone would downplay the quality of the recording. In my opinion, it's 75% of the problem.
It's not about whether someone smokes pot or not, it's about the engineer compressing the hell out of the music so it's as loud as possible, while mixing it hot to sound good on a car deck or boombox that rolls off at 6K.
I'm not saying that Axioms are perfect (what speaker is?) but when they sound great on generally-accepted good-quality recordings and
don't sound so great on (generally) lesser recordings.... who you gonna blame?
And, BTW, I agree about Green Day's latest. But you're listing exceptions within the genre.
