I think that the following statements:
The Silent Stage is dry
The Silent Stage has a lot of early reflections
The Silent Stage was built to color the sound as little as possible
The Silent Stage does have its own color
are all true statements. You're all correct, the Silent Stage was built to be dry but even a dry environment still has a bit of color, and early reflections are not the same as reverberance. I have also previously read that Silent Stage recordings get edited to further reduce the amount of tail that gets recorded, maybe I'm remembering wrong but I thought I had read that before. All of this just means that the VI recordings were *designed* for a particular type of use, and sure you can use Synchron the same way, but that's not its design, and that does make a difference.