Do you preferred Monitor / Neutral or Coloured / Warmer Speaker

[Witterings]

I am looking at upgrading some speakers and appreciate I'm only going to know which I prefer by actually listening to them both but I was just generally interested if most people had a leaning towards a precise, monitor type sound, or if you'd generally err towards something with some colour / a little bit warmer, finding the studio monitor sound a bit too clinical.

Flip side of the same coin is one's more likely to be a truer reflection so theoretically should be better but in the real world a mixing engineer adds some colour to a mix anyway so it's not a true and clean sound by the time it's a recording .... the instrument that most reflects this to me is drums which without being various effects being applied sound pretty harsh and horrible.

The 2 speakers I'm considering are Spendor A1's and PMC Prodigy 1's, the PMC's I think would generally work better in my room / placement but as I say it's more just to get a general consensus / opinions from other people as to what their preferences are and if there's any reasoning behind it.

Interested to people's thoughts and preferences.

 

[Gray]

Some describe coloured as musical.
Neutral is musical to me.
Cant stand rolled off treble and warmed up bass.

I've got PMC twenty21 (on the end of a Cyrus amp).
Seen the Prodigy 1 in at dealer - and thought it looked nicer than in photos 🤪
It was actually the Prodigy 5 floorstander that they had set up - and I had a brief listen (from a Naim amp).
That sounded a bit overblown in the bass to me....but possibly because I'm used to standmounts.
I reckon the Prodigy 1 will sound good.
(I really fancy a Prophecy 1, but not it's price).

 

[matthewpianist]

I had a pair of Spendor A1 a few years ago, with a Rega Elex-R. They need power behind them to come alive. When they do, they can sound very admirable, but not especially engaging in my experience. I had auditioned them before buying, against a pair of Linn Majik 109s, but I wish I had compared them to a wider variety of options, because I ended up losing money and wishing I hadn't bothered. That isn't to say they're bad speakers, because they are superbly engineered and some people love them, but they are marmite in being so clinical.