Nothing dumb about it, it’s actually quite on point. They didn’t mention price points or comparing speakers, but that the actual sounds heard from any speakers in a room depends greatly on room treatment (things like reflections, absorption, standing waves). This is where good usage of dsp room correction can help, along with rugs.
vim or neovim? what terminal emulator are you using? post your nvim init.lua file. try putting both of these in tmux.conf:
set -g default-terminal “xterm-256color”
set-option -ga terminal-overrides “,xterm-256color:Tc”
This is for alacritty terminal emulator + tmux + neovim but may help put you on the right track with whatever te u might be using: