Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more?

You ask this { Are there more then this as two distincly different camps?} and end with this { Please discuss, you can cite examples of products or systems but keep to the topic of sound and nothing else.} so whats this all about then? Also poster mentions only 2 camps and in his mind one is rt one is wrong?  Things are never blk and white shades of grey exist.

SEVERAL folks here have got it right, esp.geoffkait.  I listened to Pioneer receivers playing Stevie Wonder vinyl back in college and it sounded great.  Few people back then had better systems then that- tube lovers I would imagine with speakers no one had ever heard of.  Now we have many more sources with different engineering involved before you even consider playback, And things are moving so fast that some have very advanced technology in use while i still hang on to my cassette deck to listen to an occasional tape.  Was sound in the 60's inferior when i rocked out to the 1st Led Zeppelin album?  I had a BSR turntable for Pete's sake, but it still made me VERY happy.  
    My system now makes Mozart sound just right, so I don't even care if LZ-1 sounds OK or not.  SO what camp do you put me in?  Everything has changed and been transformed from one "idea" of a sound system to another (actually many "others").   "Accuracy" is the 1st principle of sound reproduction, but that goes for the entire chain from the note in the studio to the note as it strikes your ear at home.  So "compromise" would then be the 2nd principle- adapting as best we can to "what is" rather than to what is theoretically possible. 

You ask this { Are there more then this as two distincly different camps?} and end with this { Please discuss, you can cite examples of products or systems but keep to the topic of sound and nothing else.} so whats this all about then? Also poster mentions only 2 camps and in his mind one is rt one is wrong? Things are never blk and white shades of grey exist.

I’m going to put you in the objectivist camp. You want proof and flaws in logic stand out to you. Some of his statements also had me scratching my head, but in the big picture he went out on a limb and created a really interesting thread...so kudos to the audio dr. I hope to hear his responses. 

@seaheis" They trust their ears less and gain valuable insights from measurements and white papers."

I am on the detail side and I recently bought a Benchmark AHB2 amp and DAC3L so you got that assumption correct. However, I trust my ears and that is why I don't do the colored sound stuff.

BYW - those 2 Benchmark units are outstanding.

Many good insightful comments here.
Prof, my experience of listening to live acoustical instruments is the same impression that you describe. So full, rich and vivid/colorful, very warm when heard in person and up close . just immensely emotionally engaging.

Many audio components seem to sacrifice this character for higher frequency energy and presumably increased detail and accuracy (ends up too thin/lean sounding, stripped of the beautiful natural tone/harmonics) . IMO, Oh well, Wolf wisely summed it up , just try to achieve what sounds right to you. +1.
Charles