watchnerd
Grand Contributor
All the analogies you guys are using are pointless here. If accurate sound reproduction is the usecase of a loudspeaker, only one outcome is right here. Everything else is broken, like a car with a engine that spurts every now and then but still somehow run. Yeah for some people it may be ok, if there is a sticker of Ferrari on it.
Oh my. Where to start?
2 channel is fakery.
Microphones color sound.
Real world dynamic range is out of reach for most domestic loudspeakers.
Direct radiators don't represent the radiation patterns of real life instruments, nor do they necessarily match microphones.
So which outcome are we solving for?