There is this myth that you are hearing what the artists heard is good. In minimalist recordings this myth is you'll hear what the audience heard. Yet the artists don't know what they audience heard. They were in amongst other musicians. In more artificial recordings they hear what it all sounded like over some studio gear and may have intentions. What artists hear is there own performance, how they played, was it slow or fast, was it clean, was there a mistake, it fit with what the other musicians were doing. All important, but well detached from any fidelity concern. If the most basic levels of fidelity let them hear themselves they are good with it. Yet them hearing themself is nothing like how you hear it and I don't mean the fidelity.
