By his own description, a few years ago, Steve was merely a bystander at one or two sessions. Steve lives in Brooklyn NY near where Chesky does some of his recordings. Steve was/is neither a producer nor an engineer. He could, I suppose, have some role in ASoc.
I listened, last night, to ASoc's 24/96 headphone sample and the 24/192 speaker sample. I found them interesting. I could not find a 'stock' mix to compare them with. I did try playing the speaker mix through headphones and found the differences to be significant.
As of this moment, I cannot find a comparison, but I may say that the mixes
were interesting. It isn't PSAudio snake oil at all. I can say that I find Chesky's experiments with using different studio mixes for HP and SPKR to have potential. However, I haven't yet found a way to play the files except through my laptop.
I call carrying the laptop to the bigger music system, my "Addidas Network."
By quiet confession of many studio engineers and producers, it is common practice to make two or three different masters from a (pop) music mix:
One for broadcast and video,
One for CD and hi-res streaming,
One for vinyl cutting.
Chesky's method might
redo the studio mix and add two more for headphones and speakers. We'll see if there's sufficient demand to warrant the extra work.
Meantime, I'm not going to be a naysayer of new artistic and production aspects if they indeed sound better to me.