Originally Posted by
jack_bouska
It's not that I need to listen while walking around, or that I need to satisfy a widely dispersed audience, its just that I listen to the direct arrival, the early reflections, *and* the reverberant (decaying) sound field when I sit in the sweet spot.
I still think good CD is important for quality sound reproduction. Good CD means flat, ripple free (and internal reflection free) on and off axis response. The attached graphic (from JBL literature) explains it better 1000 words from me.