yeah well English is his fourth or fifth or sixth language - so some thing are a little lost in translation.

I think I can address some - the ceiling is not as controlled because they're at different heights and dimensions - they factor in the corner and the floor because those can be factored readily.

Peter is a huge classical guy but he has kids who listen to it and introduced it to him and he likes it. He usually brings very hard metal to audio shows and I know he likes Slipnot and Rammstein kind of stuff. Way the hell too hard for me. But then I've not heard it on my system - maybe I'll like it more

With the music comment is to judge gear - doesn't matter what the music is - the system that homogenizes the differences the least (or maximizes the differences most) is the one that is being more truthful to the recordings. And the stereo should not care what is played - whether it is Slipnott or violin. I have always agreed with that. If a speaker is weak at one - in all likelyhood it is weak at the thing you think it is doing well. Many products stamp a heavy signature on the sound over a wide number of recordings - very popular big name high end ones IMO do just that. But don't get me wrong they often stamp a sound on things that are very appealing.

Yeah he is not a proponent of SACD - quite the reverse.