Can a system sound too Holographic?

That would depend on individual tastes, but I could see how the 'holography' of the sound could distract from the music itself....

@carlsbad2 

Understood. I also agree with @ghdprentice that while that type of holography is interesting, it's not something that's important to me. I care more about timbre and dynamics. Other things are secondary..

Too holographic is like listening to surround sound.

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Holographic is a balance ratio between "sound source " volume dimensions and localization and listener envelopment factor... ASW/LV

There is no such thing as a too much amount of holography.. ( But a soundfield can be wrongly and badly distorted in the room yes by lack of holograpical control ) Why ?

Because in acoustic experience , some ratio must be optimized , when the acoustic conditions are set right in a small room, this ratio become optimal it cannot AT THE END be too much or not enough ... The sound sources can be experienced almost as point or tiny surfaces and the soundfield can be outside the listener body completely... This is not holography...

We can have imaging differentiation AND fIxed soundstage dimensions without holography... ( With holography, the soundstage vary in dimensions with the recording choices in each album in a good acoustic or with a good headphone but as most room most headphone are not good  ) This is why most reviewers in non dedicated room recognize only two aspects of the soundfield in their review , the imaging and almost fixed soundstaging and miss the holography.. Any ideal soundfield exhibit three aspects not two... I did not pick up this in a book by the way, i created it in my room reading acoustic articles to set my experiments and created my devices......

Those who dont bother about holography never experience it fully ... Sorry... But yes timbre set right is mandatory and the first thing to create... But once timbre experience is there as relatively natural, to experience immersiveness we need an optimal ratio between sound sources dimensions and localizations for holographical experience..

The objective perfect way to experience it, without be bother by acoustic problems very difficult to solve right is NOW simple : we must buy a Dr. Choueri virtual acoustic room program or dac with his BACCH filters... This is way more perfect than my homemade experiments and it is a plug and play device ... it takes me 2 years full time to do it and only to some extent ... Now i lost my room..

Happily my headphone give me an astounding soundfield but it is another story...( i cannot afford the Dr Choueri filters system for now and anyway i am happy as it is )

By the way saying that holography may distract the listener from the music is like saying that a great acoustic hall for an orchestra distract us from listening the orchestra... That does not make sense...