Only useless until some idiot breaks the internet for everybody eh?

(wink)

Just do what pleases you. The old school audio obsessed purists would have everything flat from source to speaker so you hear as near to the original recording as possible. I suspect this started when most rich people listened to classical music.

All I would say is you might want the option to turn off the tone controls so you get the best of both worlds. Yamaha’s pure direct is a fairly extreme example as it seems to stop everything (I think it turned off my toaster the other day) but just a ‘defeat’ button would suffice.

Planar or electrostatics, next is anything with a single unit driver. Single point source = accurate soundstage.

Any music on vinyl that was recorded, mixed and mastered for release on vinyl stands a good chance of having the advantage over digital.

Took me 90 seconds, what a twat.