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The author of the blog in the original post was talking about having all
loudspeakers, production and reproduction, perform to a reference. On the
production end, what the artist chooses as to final product, is on the
home more exactly what he experienced and wanted.

Until now hifi folk have had to settle for a "best guess" duplication of
that goal without reference to know how nearly the artist was being
represented. Confusion upon confusion feeding upon the added factor of
each part of the process from artist's ear to listener's ear.

It occurs to me that in this digital age the process could be made even
more exact. The production speaker could be represented even beyond
manufacturing to a prformance reference by taking a industrywide reference
snapshot in the digital domain of some reference source material. On the
listener's end that snapshot would come with each recording and be used by
digital process to fine tune even further the home speaker. The snapshot
would mean that any hardware differences, if any should exist;ie. amps
etc., would cause the home hardware to perform to the original reference
experienced by the artist.

This would take into considration both the listening acoustic context of
both ends and corrections to a more strict reference produced on the home
end. The listener would hear what the artist heard and wanted heard for
his product exactly.

One would be free of course to create any form of a smile on one's 10 band
eq for any reason one should choose. In the digital domain such messing
with the artist's intentions would be possible.

For heritage purposes, such application could recreate the sound as though
from an lp or fm tuner or any number of "difference creating" factors
which are now familiar. The existing library of recoordings would be no
less amenable to be reproduced as one would want, including "improving"
many of them as the listener would desire.