This is remarkable the amount of multichannel music recordings out there. ...I agree with you Kal; recreating the music experience @ a concert hall is not the same as creating a new surround mix for the effects.
From stereo music recordings can you recreate what was recorded in a recording music studio? ...@ a concert hall venue?
Stereo people must prefer studio recordings more than live ones well recorded for the home?
@ most audio shows (Axpona) what you see is usually a pair of stereo loudspeakers with stereo sources...turntables and stereo music servers.
...Sometimes a DAC too and a CD transport; they still exist...not just turntables and Open-reel-tape decks.
But all of them in stereo two-channels only.
For multichannel surround sound people go @ video/audio shows, from Dolby, dts, Auro, JBL Synthesis, ...
Are there multichannel hi-res audio shows where they play multichannel hybrid SACDs and Blu-ray Audios?
...You know, the type where they recreate a live music event. If there are thousands, ten thousand multichannel SACDs out there that are great sounding and give you a closer approach to real live music, why are there so many people who love stereo studio music recordings played from stereo turntables and stereo CD players and stereo DACs and stereo R-2-R tape decks?
I always thought that audio is the liberation of a man's soul in getting closer to the real event?
Stereo music recordings made in studios are cool, so are multichannel music/movie recordings made in real life venues of all sorts...halls, clubs, alleys, cabarets, lounges, small classical chamber rooms.
I think perhaps that our rooms act as the natural reverbs present in a classical music concert hall or jazz club cabarets.
So stereo is plenty for most stereo audiophiles. And the ultra high end music listeners cannot afford more than one pair of ultra expensive loudspeakers?
Hey, 5.1 and 7.1 requires one or two and a half pair more of loudspeakers. ...Plus a sub or two-three-four.
When I listen to some classical music recorded in 5.1-channel say from Channel Classics on SACD, it is a very different music experience than a stereo recording of the same performance from a turntable or CD player. It's like I'm more inside the real event and more involved emotionally. It does that to me, but I still love stereo...it's just that to look for something closer to a real life event, and finding it, makes for a natural music progression...the holy grail of music nirvana...there there more.
There is also more work involved with multichannel music to get it right, and also in the music selections.
More money involved too, more measurements, more care, more selective with the speakers, more care with speakers positioning, more care in speakers and subwoofers balancing and level and delay matching. Best delay is no delay, same distance. Best timbre matching is no mixing drivers from different brands, same equal speakers all around...five or seven of them (eleven with movie soundtracks...Atmos, dts:X and Auro-3D spaciousness...audio immersion).
* Today I saw @ least a dozen baby spiders going under the keys of my laptop's keyboard. I spent all day on my deck under an umbrella for shade from the sun (it hits 34° Celsius in mid-afternoon), and insect life is extremely active...bees, birds, ants, spiders, all type and species and babies.
What a hot sunny Spring day here on the Island...almost scary. Right now (7:07 PM) the colors and the flowers are magnificent, similar to a great classical multichannel music recording. It's just that on my deck outside I don't have such a system setup...just one pair of stereo speakers.
Anyway, thx for that link with tons of SACDs.
...This is a refreshment in natural music evolution. ...Just like in real life with sounds coming not only from the front sound stage but from the sides and rear too, and right in the middle @ front. ...And from above.
The ambient sounds, the ones from real life music events.
♦ Did they have rooms like that @ Axpona 2016, with a 5.1-channel rig setup? ...Perhaps they should...
That'll be some' else.