Tim,
Please do not change the sense of my sentence cutting part of it:
the room ..... should conjugate with the recording to recreate the sound engineer’s intentions.
is not
I think no one here believes that the room pretends to create an acoustical environment per se– it should conjugate with the recording to recreate the sound engineer’s intentions.
Any way, my idea is that during mastering the sound is often tailored for a different sound environment, in order to better recreate the sound experience in the final consumer room. (or unhappily for most of us for the car or kitchen radio) .
Some people spend their lives studying sound reproduction. They write articles and books on it and some even write there things like Readers will undoubtedly find conflicts between the recommendations in this book and the ideas published or promoted elsewhere Some others just know the truth by other means. I currently have made my choice which school I prefer, may be someday I will change ...
Sorry, Micro. I didn't really mean to take you out of context, I thought in this phrase:
it should conjugate with the recording to recreate the sound engineer’s intentions.
...that "it" referred to the room. My apologies if I misunderstood.
Tim