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The predominant preference is a flat on axis frequency response and a downwards sloping room response. Some of the art of acoustics and absolutely science is ensuring you can do both.

I mentioned it before but John Storyk said himself that flat studios sound bad, so he doesn’t build them he’s been the top studio designer for going on 40 years 

This is where you are getting into the weeds, if you want a "Storyk Curve", build one, NP. Where is the link to the Storyk paper published in a peer reviewed journal citing his research?

Now, what DID you build? A "storyk curve", a "Harman curve", a "Lyngdorf curve". 

Hopefully not a "Titanic" curve. :)
 

@donavabdear 

From a psychoacoustics view, the on-axis response does need to be accurate to properly portray positioning .... at least if a recording was made simulating human hearing. Without conditioning, what is the correct room response? It would be almost impossible to determine as you would need unconditioned test subjects. 

You are still very new to the hobby. If you like this type of research check out ASR, you will find many adherents there. 

Check out the "Kota Curve" , I received a compliment recently from a professional acoustics engineer with many years in the business on the UNCORRECTED curve, even before DSP he said it was very good and it showed I paid attention to details:

You are still very new to the hobby. If you like this type of research check out ASR, you will find many adherents there. 

There are very few on the ASR forums, in my experience, that are highly experienced in acoustics and psychoacoustics. I have noticed the odd person posting of some experience. It is a very small and specialized field.