So I was wondering... Nowdays, since we have inexpensive, but accurate measurement equipment and high-power DSP's that allow you to "shape" a speaker response curve as much as you want, does that make speaker quality less important? I mean before DSP's, you pretty much had to live with the "native" speaker frequency response curve. You could alter installation positions and do *some* EQ, but the speaker basically sounded the way it sounded - and I'm assuming that more expensive speakers just had a better frequency response than less expensive speakers.
But with todays DSP's, you can basically alter the frequency response of a speaker any way that you want. So if your speakers are able to handle the power and frequency range that you need, what makes one speaker sound better than another - assuming that you are getting the exact same frequency response from both after DSP tuning?
I'm just trying to understand what makes one speaker so much better than another nowdays, when we have the ability to alter a speakers frequency response so much with powerful DSP processors and measurement equipment.