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One hopes Mr Schafer's understanding of neuro-audiology has improved since he first made such simplistic assertions. "Nervous word"? "Aberration and drama"? What was the man trying to say?
If he was asserting that we can all be fooled by appearances, he's right though. One of my favorite audiophool party tricks is to put a CD in my player, press play and then sneakily start the same CD recorded onto my Nakamichi 'Dragon'. Interesting how many 'golden eared audiophools' don't recognise the substitution while those numbers are ticking over on the CD display.
Compression fatiguing? To my ears not always but it does always bore the pants off me.
As to not enjoying video when listening to a performance I've yet to find a screen, placed between the speakers, that doesn't stuff up the imaging on two channel stereo . If there's a centre channel operating though it's OK.
And is "sitting in a room full of inaminate objects and expecting to be fooled into thinking one is listening to a jazz ensemble somehow "wrong?" - No, but you can still get a huge amount of musical enjoyment without having to delude yourself you're at a concert and isn't that the whole point?