Hi,
Please SUBSTANTIATE why "equalising" your systems sound via specifc cartridges, speakers and mana tables is right and correcting merely for obvious recording imperfections is not.
Or perhaps in other terms (which you may understand better), why is treating the clap via homeopathic methodes "right" and a good, decent dose of antibiotics is "wrong".
As I come mainly from a pro-audio (and EE) background, to me an EQ is a tool to be used where applicable. UNLIKE most from this background I do not discount homeopathic medicine (in the Audio/EE sense) either, to me it's all grist for the mill and what comes out at the end matters.
Not a very religeous and British Flat Earth Brand worshipping stance, more along the lines of Religio Medici.
I am in many ways the opposite of you. In the studio I am an absolutist of the worst kind (in opposition to many Engineers), at home a liberal and libertine of the worst.
You seem to be the opposite, allowing the engineer in his studio all liberty and the listener non (strap him down and make him listen - what he does not like it - so what!?)
L8er T