On January 13, 2021 at 09:36, mrtristan said...
When I say neutral, I mean perfectly flat frequency response including the room. I know that’s impossible but wouldn’t that be the ultimate goal? If your system was perfectly flat and so was the studio, then you would hear the sound exactly as intended. If every system were to strive for that perfectly flat response then there would be no question about what sounds better. In reality, every design skews the response greatly enough that we can still have arguments about what sounds better.
In reality, most listeners don’t like fully neutral sound. Go back to 2 channel,days when we had bass, treble, LOUDNESS controls? I’d wager maybe 1 of 10 used flat, regardless of the setup.