Nope. I was talking about the exact opposite. See my EDITS.
I’d rather have total discreet separation from channel to channel (with multi-channel surround) than to have listening content mixed with
not enough perceived separation of instruments.
My room itself has some liveliness to it that things blend together in the center of the room a bit... like they should. Hard wood floors work with bass in a realistic and deeply powerful feeling of womp! Large Rugs placed in a most tasteful arrangement deadens things nicely, and the vintage music / (large) Fillmore posters (+ Beatles, Stones, Who, Floyd, Zeppelin autographs) mounted in glass frames create a lively air to the high end of the spectrum.
Anyway after getting used to my listening room with it being an active part of the sound field, when I visit friends who have very nice and expensive systems I’ll often prefer my own more lively setup than their accurate (but) totally dead sounding rooms. Their small high end speakers and beautiful low watt amps sound small to me, and I don’t “feel” the music the way I like to.
I have been to plenty of concerts large and small, and I know what live music sounds like. My setup sounds (and feels) like a live performance.
I saw Bruce Cockburn the other (Weds) night at McCabe’s in LA. This little venue seats 150. I got second row center isle. It was (I noticed) immersive and full sounding like I get with my room at home, and not that smallish (expensive) pure sound I get at others listening rooms / homes.
Yeah, so anyway, I like live albums on my system in this setup particularly, Made in Japan, At Fillmore East, Love You Live, Hendrix at Winterland and others that are mixed well sound wonderful with this analogue stereo 4-speaker setup. But studio albums as well, The Final Cut, Aja, and those other audiophile works like Tea for the Tillerman do indeed sound better than good. Floyd’s TFC works well with hardwood floors giving the sound a base with which to anchor to. Lots of original analog mastered vinyl here. But JRiver from PC is also on tap, with ton of MFSL, DCC golds, AP, AF, DVD-A & SACD rips and super nice needle drops done mostly at 24/96kHz all pulling their weight too.
In fact, my richer friends with more money to spend on hi-fi gear, who do have that nicer gear - do not have quite the vinyl collection I have, nor the digital selection I have on PC server (to say nothing of 4.0 / 5.1 surround). They come to me for advice on (analogue cut) LP purchases and I get to go listen at the the purchases I recommended - at their homes on these somewhat superior systems. It’s all good and all fun stuff.