Because we are a bit OT, may I ask, have you read Toole, first and third editions?
Not the least me thinks--it is about how to gain knowledge and for what purpose.
This started with a quite simple put, yet bold, but unsupported claim by an audiophile, an experienced one.
A pro suggested to start with an analogy. Namely from optics. This was shown to work not.
Nevertheless the term "dynamics" was mapped to "echo-free". Still it makes no sense.
While discussing "echo-free" as synonymous to "dynamic", especially targeting commercial solutions, the arguments left all other aspects behind.
When it comes to Toole I would propose to take the whole into account. Starting at one end of the "circle of confusion", namely how is it made in the studio? Where does it end at home, is the next question.
Is it feasable to even reduce reflections / reverberation, if the sound engineer calculated those in when producing the media?
Is reverberation relevant to dynamics at all?
And the least, really, to talk of oneselves as a machinery that has to be tricked, can read, sometimes, a bit annoying.