When will there be decent classical music recordings?


With "pop" music the recordings are such that you can hear the rasp of the guitar string, the echo of the piano, the tingle of the percussion ... and so on .... and in surround sound.
Surround sound is brilliant in picking out different instruments that would otherwise have been "lost" or merged with the other sounds.
Someone will say well that is not how you listen at a concert, but that is just archaic. As a friend said many years ago to me ... whats wrong with mono?!
I am sure Beethoven or whomever would have been excited if they could have presented their music in effectively another dimension.
I have yet to come across any classical recording that grabs me in the way it should, or could. Do they operate in a parallel universe musicwise?
I used to play in an orchestra so I am always looking out for the "extra"  presence in music ... in amongst it, not just watching and listening from a distance


tatyana69

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Tanya, I am sorry to say that what you suggest is...not how it should be. We listen with two ears, I certainly do. Two mikes. Not three or five or fifty - two.
Exactly. Our rooms, with few exceptions, are very small boxes, not suitable for large scale music.
I think, she is looking for the impossible - to be at the same time in the middle of orchestra and in the audience. Sorry, this is not quantum physics world, thank god.
Oh no, no 'flying guitars' for me please. However, if we start talking about ambient atmospheric tribal music, then I might agree that surround sound may have the place, should be recorded and mastered well though.