Given most audio enthusiasts will defend their belief over their dead body, to openly sell your sound ideology is making enemy. Audio is religion, very rigid. Closed minded is not a wise thing. First and foremost, what is your motive of selling your ideology? I can't think of anything else except you want more people to stand by your side.
Admittedly, I had flip flopped my ideology a few times. First, I champion charming tones, soundstage, transparency, accuracy and now charming tones. A slap on my face, indeed. I was intolerable and now become tolerable. Age has made me wiser and open to ideas. Above everything else, his audio system must please the owner unless he cares about what others think. Secondly, our thoughts evolved through time and exposure, and this is inevitable. The bottom is if the sound gets into your favor or not because there is no right or wrong sound.
What we are today is recording is a guilty in first-degree murder. Good recordings can make a mediocre system sounds good. I'm not a fan of audiophile recordings. They consist too many editorials. They sounded too good to be music with all the presence, resolution, transparency and separation. Sounded too etched to later invite listening fatigue.
A good system supposedly allows us to enjoy music, not sound. From the booming of high-end audio phenomenon, many are chasing after sci-fi sound with out of the world resolution, transparency and separation driven by digital evolution. Software becomes the playing field. I think these hinder us from the music. They are diving in the craft of sound, extracting greater resolution and cleaner presentation that unfortunately leads to segregation.
You can probably see now, it is a pivot for me. Music to me is organic, cut from the same cloth. How can you tell if the recording itself carries booming? As much as I can, I preserve the micro and macro dynamic by doing less on the system. Less is more applies. Room mode is inevitable, room correction will curtail the power of music. I'm not a believer in software approach to deal with room acoustics. I have heard systems with room corrected and non room corrected, I prefer the latter by a far margin. This, you have to experience by yourself.
With this being said, I see I'm more like a cult.
