yoshi wrote:

What was wrong was that I do not have a proper evaluation method/ability of Sound and piled up my system around the Reps driver with an intention to overcome the obvious shortcomings under the way I've been listening to jazz.  The result was what we Japanese call "Kamaboko" (mid-rangey) sound with shelved down top and bottom and dynamically challenged (in my application) Reps driver in its center.  There were also phase anormalies that you checked.  All these, causing compression, coloration and imaging anomaly.  We (you) fixed it by extending the energy balance more to both frequency extremes and correcting the phase as much as possible (12db to 6db) by manipulation of crossover point and attenuation settings, and replaced the Reps driver with more dynamically linear and less colored LE-8T (2115).  The flatter ("proper" in your words) and extended energy balance is responsible for the overall increased dynamic capacity, and the corrected phase and replaced mid-range driver are responsible for the dynamic linearity, proper imaging and less coloration.

yoshi wrote:

Lack of "intention" and lack of "the recognition of actual results"?

Actually it is a good question and the answer sits much deeper then you think.

The high-end audio industry, by it’s stupid nature that is being cultivated in the minds of it’s weak participants, trained people to perceive the “audio results” as whatever audio elements output. The moronic industry insists that audio results are the result of audio elements but not the result of the listening awareness. The industry does it because they have already developed the propaganda framework of disinformation and deception and pre-developed an army of idiots-audiophiles who “tuned” to be deluded and mislead. So, the industry physically binds the output of audio elements with listening awareness of audio participants, making the stupid participants to feel that they have freedom or liberty. In reality the people are pre-programmed and highly predictable in this blindness. If you point out to them thier “zombieanic blindness” then they get angry…

The reality is, as many times I have written before, that there is a completely different Audio with completely differed methods to handle the audio tasks. People just do not know or understand, they just do not want to listen it as the Morons believe that they know everything. You had a preview how a playback was converted from shit (from my point of view) into a slightly more organized and more cultured substance - it took 20-30 minutes, required practically no knowledge and no experience. It has absolutely nothing to do with the “bad Reps driver” if you keep them the result would be the virtually the same. All that was necessary for your playback is just to look at it results not from a perspective: “It is result” but from the perspective: “What was the result?”.

When Sound of playback became not the embraced slavery but the output of our own will and motivations then all BS goes away and we are immune to make stupid or blind audio mistakes. Then our vision and our ability to navigate playback’s Sound where it should be and our audio capacity begin to operate at completely different level.

Romy the Cat wrote:

All that was necessary for your playback is just to look at it results not from a perspective: “It is result” but from the perspective: “What was the result?”.

Yoshi

I may have a point on this

some years ago, I had some confidence with the owner of a shop, and he let me use the demo equipment, though in fact my budget didn´t allow to buy him more than a few cheap things.
one day I was psycothic listenig to some Eric Dolphy´s bass clarinet passage on the shop, I was not able to "feel" the clarinet and was turning nuts with that.

in a different zone of the shop an old man was calmly listening to some classical, he was very pleasant and quiet, and then he said: listening to music is for pleasure, not to make you nervous. 

now I look for an audio system to relax me, first I try to identify where´s the problem, what makes me feel uncomfortable, and then take my time to think how to solve it, days, weeks ...
I can live without ultimate bass extension, but I like the cellos and pianos to sound close to their reverberant-resonant way, so I avoid ultra-damped systems
I like to follow oboes, wood winds, delineating the melody, so I look for clean low mids
I like to feel inflections, texture, time, the emotional content, so I like horns and SETs, but not because they play loud, in fact my average listening level is hardly 75-80 db 
also I have found that phase-time coherence has great importance to relax me

it´s the way I like to relax at home

audio is a hobby, take your time, think what´s happening to disturb you and how to solve it before turning nuts. 

by the way, offtopic, I am a pretty ignorant about horns, recently I bought a pair of 2nd hand Avantgarde Duos, very complex speakers, and this out of phase tweeter is killing me.
Omega tweeter is in phase and is said to improve things, maybe I should save the money (I can´t get the trios bass horn inside the room, the door is too narrow)
I´ve got a bidat and a bitstream dacs, the bidat exposes the problem so meantime I use the bitstream.
a friend has built a GRF-like horn enclosure with a pair of 12" tannoy golds, let´s see what happens.