Homegrove Of course you should notice the difference in a club with a decent set up. My point was more toward home use.
mono-stereo “Warm” is a fun term. It’s like when they splash “analog” all over vsts. Not sure what it means exactly, but people seem to like it, and I hear that as low pass/saturated. And yeah, unless the mixer somehow makes everything sound better (which after a professional master, really just comes down to subjective taste), flat should be the goal.