Accuracy, awh yeah, that word. Accurate means fidelity to the source in my book. It does not mean warm or bleached, it means replicating the recording wiggles accurately. As long as we understand that the illusion trying to be reproduced by stereo is just that, an illusion, then of course by our biases we can choose a system that is as accurate or inaccurate as our tastes desire. Colored systems color everything, and if that's what we want then that's fine. The mix and master need to do the job right so we can enjoy the best illusion....they seldom get it right IMO. I would guess that your favorite song always sounds great to you, on the car or on the big rig or even on some elses rig...and that's the mix and mastering that gets the depth and width and balance right, and also our biases at to what we like, add those two together and we get a great sound almost always.
If we go the route of what sounds good to us vs accuracy from a system, then the guy with his low mid fi system that he loves has the ultimate system since it sounds right to him. Without accuracy, there is no reference, and basically, get a room of audiophile together and while they may tend to agree some, most will come away with different ways of describing the same system. I am not sure accuracy is the goal these days as much as change for change sake. A "house sound" is either more accurate or more colored depending on the ultimate judge, each one of us. This hobby is highly personal.
