Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms!

@prof maybe my irony didn't come off so well. The OP was making the point that someone whose listening room is a mess or absolute disaster clearly can't be relied upon to subjectively review equipment or music, so I was making the contrarian point that someone whose listening room looks like like nearly all the "audiophile" rooms I see clearly can't be relied upon either because their listening setup and equipment doesn't reflect real-world conditions. 

As you rightly point out, people create the room they want. Some "test" equipment by listening to "audiophile" tracks and some people listen to music on the best setup they can afford.  

I'm sure if some people saw my listening room they'd be aghast.. And while it's not Michael Fremer-boarding-on-horder messy, it's also not the audiophile ideal.

Over a decade ago it was not uncommon for editors to send true (dif) balanced components to reviewers whose systems were not. And in their write ups/reviews they would say they could hear no difference, proving both editors and reviewers weren't that bright. I would call them out on it to no avail. After way too many of such examples of stupidity I gave up

@larsman +1

"I'd rather hear from a reviewer who might have a 'real world' listening space like most viewers would. A review from an acoustically perfect space would give me no information at all about what I might expect in my own place. "

There is one well known 6moons reviewer who has placed speakers

 what could best be described as halfway down a hallway..

A lot of rooms I have seen on Youtube look over-damped. Of course, we are listening to those rooms with microphones and Youtube compression, so it's hard to tel what is really going on. Some rooms look like they could use some "livening" with a bit more reflectivity.