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Originally Posted by Petronius

Regarding the Alex Sterling interview, Mr. Sterling speaks of tweeking his mix at various levels using different speakers and standing in different rooms
However,I believe here he is talking about non-classical music. If one is listening to Beethoven at anything less than concert hall sound levels, it is incorrect. The late John Eargle, who engineered the Seattle Symphony recordings on Delos, stated to me once that all classical recordings had to to be listened to at concert levels during mix down (We are talking 3 to 5 channels down to 2 channel ) were going to yield less than optimal results, and all mixes should be done with high quality playback systems in mind.
This was some time ago when he was with Altec, so I may have some details wrong.
Regarding the Paul McGowin piece; he finds B&W speakers sterile? And here I thought that a speaker should be astoundingly neutral. That the idea of listening to a recording is to hear the recording.

I agree entirely.
The more neutral, the closer you get to the live performance.
Neutral is natural, and is not sterile (except when the natural is sterile of course ).