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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


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For a perspective similar to sitting in teh middle of the orchestra,  perhaps some of the quadraphonic recordings from years back played back on quad gear if any still around.   That went over really well.....   :^)
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perhaps its the ambience of symphony hall that is missing at home?   in which case you just need a bigger room with a suitable system for playback.    Not likely that recordings will get much better than they have to-date so I would not bank on that.
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That there is technology capable of reproducing live music as well as it does is essentially a miracle that everyone should be thankful for. When hifi first hit the mainstream it was a big deal and resulted in many very high quality recordings in short time because there was appreciation for such things. Now it’s taken for granted or deemed not good enough like so many things these days. How jaded we all are!


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You might try omnidirectional speakers or something along those lines in order to be able to get multiple perspectives similar to the concert hall based on where you listen from. Stand in between them and you might get something llike what you would hear if one were in the orchestra.  My OHM Walsh speakers work that way for example.  mbl would as well.

Or to be surrounded as one would be sitting in middle of an orchestra, maybe there is a modern Blue Ray or DVD with surround sound that might take a crack assuming all surround speakers are all equally up to the task as one would expect only mains to be normally.

But with only two speakers in front of you chances are you will at best get a perspective similar to sitting in the audience with your room and its acoustics your concert hall experience. No two channel recording will change that
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