openlybafld,
Quote:I can speak from experience that if there is a mismatch between speakers and an amp no amount of rolling or tweaking will fix it.
I gather you are referring to an absolute mismatch....and this statement makes sense in the case with an absolute mismatch, but I can also say that from my perspective and with all the systems, components, rooms, speakers I have used, I would not call anything I have had a great match for my tastes before tweaking. And if I had not had the confidence to tweak and enjoy the playing, I would not be enjoying music anywhere near the level I do now.
Even with my current system/room, heavily explored with cable/component matching toward total system synergy, lots of tube exploration, progressive room treatment, progressive cable exploration, caps, and so on.......a little thing like a way wrong rectifier, or the wrong speaker cables for amp/speaker synergy, or speaker caps and/or resistors that are too hot for my tastes within this system/room, or the speakers being a few inches out of the optimal locations making the bass flabby.....with this very revealing gear, for me, relatively little things could easily diminish the enjoyment level to a point where one could consider it a possible mismatch...Seems to me it is a matter of degrees and this can be quite relative, but also, I have found that the above sorts of things can actually make a pretty big difference in the system signature.
Not to say one has to go to the lengths I have to enjoy the music... I am just thinking that possibly, depending on the degree of a problem, something that might be pretty easy to remedy could potentially be interpreted as a speaker/amp mismatch.
As I think back, I might not even like my current system had I kept everything stock and without any room treatment.