Yeah thats a seperate topic and I 100% agree with you there.

Maybe we both want different definitions for the word "neutral" for sound here. Most audiophiles when they say neutral, they prob mean somewhere along the lines of the harmon target. Which was what I was thinking too.

Realizing that using neutral colors as a bad idea. If popular sound signatures are considered neutral.

Does this make sense? Harmon, ief neutral,. .. are considered excellent neutral sound signatures. Soundguy, rtings are considered good. Bassy sound signatures are considered average?

I think neutral sound the same way as neutral colors.

Neutral colors in the purest sense would be black, white and many other gray tones. But many people find those boring.

Mix in a tiny amount of colors and you get a wide palette of other colors which are still called neutral colors.

Harmon, Ief neutral,. .. can be thought as some widely popular neutral colors like Navy and khaki.