When you say "Thats not for everyone" .. are you talking about the "patience factor" or the "sonic characteristics" ?Did you find any one not-liking a well setup Rethm ?
Most of the great speakers are never plug and play and you have to keep on playing with the synergy of the components because they are usually responsive to an upgraded front end ..But when you have heard the full capability of a speaker in an ACE setup[within a budget].. you are always motivated , knowing that ,what you are aiming for, can be achieved through patience rather than hunting for an easy to setup system with a sonic compromise.
In my case I want to fix the speakers long term ..(at least 15 years) and I don't mind slowly reaching the pinnacle of sonic bliss from there on.But at the same time it is important to get a good start!I don't want to start with a system that has components that don't support each other.Then it becomes impossible to justify the buy. At the first go I am expecting to achieve the 65% of the speakers capability and the rest 35% will come through upgrades.
That's true for any resolving / high end speaker . You first get an idea of the potential of the system .
And the changes need not be thru upgrades but by minor tweaking and setup configurations etc.
A forgiving speaker is.a compromised speaker .. not to be taken negatively but something which is easier to set up although potential in terms of a hi fi definition would be lesser