Fitzcaraldo215
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The bad news is that, if you do not like classical music, you may be right.Seems to me that this...
“The answer, of course, is that multichannel specifications are designed to recreate movie sound effects,”
This, not technical limitations, is the real roadblock. If the ultimate goal is to create concert hall sound, the most fundamental problem is that so few recordings even attempt to capture it in the first place. There are some audiophile and classical recordings that do, using the current multi channel systems, but multi channel is a small fraction of a shrinking home audio market, music, as opposed to movies, is a small fraction of the multichannel content market, and content that aims to reproduce natural hall ambiance (as opposed to, say, five Eagles singing harmony from five different speakers) is a small fraction of the multichannel music market.
There is just not enough money in it to change the way hardware is made, much less recordings. It will have to be synthesized from stereo, or your listening options will be so limited that...well, who was it that said audiophiles use music to listen to their equipment, not vice versa? This is that. In the extreme.
The good news is that if you do like classical music, and if you know and love the sound of live classical music, there are thousands of recordings out there to please you. But, unfortunately classical is a niche. It looks pretty big to those inside the niche, but it looks insignificant to those outside it.