Light and sound.

I rarely listen to music, even if I still have a huge collection of CDs at home.
Some days ago I tried to listen to one CD after a very long time; I tried it with my portable Panasonic bought in 1992, but it didn't work; I tried another portable unit that used to be of my mother, but that didn't work either; I din't even try the Aiwa Hi-Fi CD player I was gifted in 2017, because that stopped working years ago.

There is only one solution if I want to listen to my CDs, buy another player.
So I started leaning stuff about Hi-Fi equipment, and I discovered some similarities between light and sound.

If you want to listen to music in the best possible way you should start with a dedicated room, trying to avoid surfaces like glass, metal, bare walls or tiles on the floor; or you should mitigate the presence of such materials by covering them with curtains, sound absorbing panels, carpets, in the quest to isolate the room from external sounds and avoid the music to bounce off the wrong surfaces and contaminating the sound.
Similarly, in a photographic studio you have to start with the room, possibly painting the wall black to avoid any unwanted reflexion, and reserve the option to block every source of natural light from outside, to avoid interference with the studio light shaping solutions.

Back in the listening room, you also need to place the chair where you sit to listen to the music at the right distance from the speakers and exactly in the middle.
Similarly you have to plan the layout of your photo-studio, depending on your main specialisation.

I don't want to fall in this Hi-Fi rabbit hole, because I don't have a suitable room in my house to adapt, and because I will never have the time to dedicate to music listening anyway.
So I will end up selecting a reasonable low priced solution, with a decent quality, and I will place it in the most convenient room for me, whatever the sound is going to be in the rest of the house.

This, after all, is the same casual approach I have with my style of photography, I don't like to work in a studio, but I prefer a messy location, and trying to get the most out of the chaos.
Messy is good, as long as the experience is enjoyable and full of life!

What really matters are the models, or the music, depending on which side of the comparison you find yourself in this moment...

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