How important is it for you to attain a holographic image?

Well, I am again, late to a thread that has intense meaning to me. I am actually not overstating this, since the idea of getting musicians in my room was a long process, and not one that was continuous, even when complete. I mean to say that recordings, as someone stated earlier in this thread, don't always have the information/miking that needs to be for decent sound reproduction... at least in the way of soundstaging. It's not that I don't enjoy many recordings in spite of their flaws, but am overcome at times when a recording (especially piano) gets it right. 
 Having said this, there are a couple of 'experiments' that have a place in my system from time to time. Off and on, I will use a completely rebuilt Carver C-9 (yes, I can see you in the back, rolling you're eyes). No, it isn't for every recording, I couldn't agree more. Probably the logic comes into line with my ocaissional need to use a good tone control. Way out of audiophilia, and probably some of you are hissing right now ;) I will say this though. Many times, a wonderful soundstage can be had, given the right speaker placement, and room treatment. but that seems to have been more popular back in my bachelor days. 

I had to think way back when I was a kid and got my first record player. What a piece of crap. I listened to Vivaldi, and some Mozart to start with. At the time, the record player, with built in speaker, was housed in a cabinet with a door on it. I soon learned that the position of the door affected the sound, and thus began my life as an experimenter in acoustics, along with electronics all around me. But my point here is that the musical message was somehow available even through that miserable setup. As time went on, and decades later, I bumped into a holographic image with the system that I had at that time, and never let go of the that ideal for my listening. My present listening room is not ideal however, and I must judiciously adopt placement, treatment while all the time being aware of the WAF.