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3D lifelike sound and impeccable measurements - mutually exclusive???

The more I investigate gear the more it seems that it’s easy to get organic involving sound with flesh and body and a 3D immersive soundstage with the right matching of components but it also seems like it necessitates choosing some components that don’t measure well/add colorations/even order harmonics etc My question is are there components (specifically amps/preamps and integrateds) are out there that combine great measurements and in your mind also have that organic immersive sound that really helps many of us get more emotionally involved in the music or are these qualities mutually exclusive? 
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  • 98% I would expect have only a limited and likely inaccurate knowledge of how our hearing and brain processes information (before the screaming starts, we don't know all the details, but we know quite well the response mechanisms to external stimuli)"

Absolutely wrong.  Are you referring to the response of the tympanum?  Basilar membrane?  Hair cells?  Auditory nerve?  Inferior colliculus?  Medial geniculate nucleus?  Primary auditory cortex?  Secondary auditory cortical areas?  Association cortices?  Striatum/limbic system?
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