What you're missing is this - a room will have different response in each and every choice of location within that room - a cello, when played in free air, will only exhibit a peak or two caused by resonance of the body, bridge placement, etc - but if you test the combination of the cello AND the room simultaneously, you won't necessarily know which is causing what parts of the overall response and may end up treating something in the room in an attempt to fix a resonance of the cello.
It's also possible that a particular instrument, while it might have some unevenness of response, sounds just great as it is; in that case, you'd want a room that did NOT color the sound so you could capture the cello, NOT the room.
Also - if you ever decide you want to do something like the Ethan video
http://www.ethanwiner.com/rondo.html
It helps if your room is NEUTRAL, because every track (from a bad room) you add to a mix will make that mix sound that much worse, until eventually NO amount of EQ will fix the problem.
HTH... Steve
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