And yet, another speaker query

I was leaving the house one day back perhaps 40 years ago. I liked to leave the receiver on to make it seem that someone was home.
I turned to walk out of the house and was stopped dead in my tracks. Was that a guitarist that snuck in the back door without me being aware?
The plucks of those guitar strings were so amazingly real, it sounded like someone was playing that guitar in my living room....and at the time, I was messing with hobby playing acoustic guitars so I knew the sound.
What were the speakers you ask? A cheap $600 per pair Boston Acoustics floor standers. They did everything else terribly however
I was wondering if anyone else had experiences such as that with old time equipment and have been yearning to produce "actuality" since then but no bananas.
I have Proac Studio 100’s with ARC stuff. Even with this, although pretty good sounding, I’ve yet to match that odd experience I had way back.
I have heard a plethora of speakers, some producing voices magnificently and falling flat with some instruments. The other way around as well.
Have never heard that all arounder even with the big Klipshes, Dahlquists, Maggies and JBL.
I wonder if it was the equipment or my hearing has gone south.