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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Absolutely not;


These are some of the specifications for the ARC LS 28 and it delivers what you specified.




FREQUENCY RESPONSE

+0-3dB, 0.4Hz to 200kHz at rated output (Balanced, 200k ohms load)

THD+NOISE

Less than .007% at 2V RMS BAL output.

NOISE

Less than -100dBv at max volume (103).

DYNAMIC RANGE

122dB (AES17).

CROSSTALK

-105dB