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You can suppress all room information listening in an anechoic chamber maximizing differences in sound , or simply just kill all the primary reflections. Does it make a system more enjoyable or realsitic? Not in my opinion. Professionals do it, also listening at high level, to maximize their analytical capabilities during mixing and mastering. Not my cup of tea. Surely systems having coloration that homogenizes recordings are not desirable.
Anyway, stereo reproduction is managing opposing compromises to fool and entertain us according to our preferences. But I still do not feel that maximizing the differences between recordings is the way to go - although the DCS Vivaldi or the Wilson's are excellent is this field.
Sure techniques of the engineer. But if you put in ten LPs, if they tend to a similar sound, that's the system. If they result in ten different sounds, something is right. The same engineer is also not creating the same sound. He is trying his best to give you a realistic representation, and between the recording, mastering, cutting, the good ones are managing to do it well. Which is why some people collect by engineers. Either way, it results in more enjoyable listening, and once you hear it, difficult to go back. I have zero intention of analysing their techniques, just that for me if I let the recording show, they have put all the realism cues on it. Great natural stage, tone, ambience, etc.
You can suppress all room information listening in an anechoic chamber maximizing differences in sound , or simply just kill all the primary reflections. Does it make a system more enjoyable or realsitic? Not in my opinion. Professionals do it, also listening at high level, to maximize their analytical capabilities during mixing and mastering. Not my cup of tea. Surely systems having coloration that homogenizes recordings are not desirable.
Anyway, stereo reproduction is managing opposing compromises to fool and entertain us according to our preferences. But I still do not feel that maximizing the differences between recordings is the way to go - although the DCS Vivaldi or the Wilson's are excellent is this field.