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The problem with our hobby is this:
That chamber orchestra only has to sound like itself. That's easy, so to speak.
Our Hi Fi systems have to make everybody sound like themselves. That's impossible.
Even if you could perfectly replicate the sound of that one live event on your Hi Fi and set things up so it actually did fool you, your system would still fail on all other attempts to do the same for all other performances....and may sound worse, in the aggregate.
We are actually just searching for an optimal compromise, my friend.