Originally posted by Gluegun
Yea...

High end audio companies that DON'T RIP PEOPLE OFF actually make an EFFORT to make their speakers as neutral and flat as possible...

The Sblive has a bass boost inherant in the system, as does the z560. Things, IMO, should *come* neutral, and then let YOU change things, based on your preferences...

The reason that there are so many speaker companies is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to get truly accurate sound... so different speakers use different ways to try and get accurate sound, use different designs, which some people favor over others. Yes, there ARE speakers that advertise the fact that they are meant to color the sound, but *I* will never want to buy one--this goes against the REASON an engineer mixed their mix the way they did it in the first place!!
who says you cant change the way the z-560's sound? every one can tweak the way ANY sound system sounds, thats half the fun of a sound system to me. i can make my z-560's have virtually no bass. you cant do it just by the control center but if you put the bass in windows down to nothing there will be almost no bass at all. so in that situation there is no "colouring" of sound.