Eldartford, no doubt you are correct and, for you, if the mono microphone comparisons on the origial Stereophile Test CD can make the voice of J. Gordon Holt sound like Julian Hirsh, the late editor of Stereo Review Magazine, they must certainly be more colored than anything else on the planet.
However, for me, these colorations are consonant with the fabric of the music and, if you listen to the jitter distortion comparisons with the harmonic distortion comparisons on Stereophile Test CD3 you may agree that some people find aharonically related distortions in small amounts much more damaging than harmonically related ones. Though they probably won't make me confuse JG with Julian as I have the advantage of having known him. And a good egg he was!
However, for me, these colorations are consonant with the fabric of the music and, if you listen to the jitter distortion comparisons with the harmonic distortion comparisons on Stereophile Test CD3 you may agree that some people find aharonically related distortions in small amounts much more damaging than harmonically related ones. Though they probably won't make me confuse JG with Julian as I have the advantage of having known him. And a good egg he was!