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When will there be decent classical music recordings?

With "pop" music the recordings are such that you can hear the rasp of the guitar string, the echo of the piano, the tingle of the percussion ... and so on .... and in surround sound.
Surround sound is brilliant in picking out different instruments that would otherwise have been "lost" or merged with the other sounds.
Someone will say well that is not how you listen at a concert, but that is just archaic. As a friend said many years ago to me ... whats wrong with mono?!
I am sure Beethoven or whomever would have been excited if they could have presented their music in effectively another dimension.
I have yet to come across any classical recording that grabs me in the way it should, or could. Do they operate in a parallel universe musicwise?
I used to play in an orchestra so I am always looking out for the "extra"  presence in music ... in amongst it, not just watching and listening from a distance


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"Someone will say well that is not how you listen at a concert, but that is just archaic. "

It's not archaic--it's real, it's natural.  Guitarists and engineers go far out of their way to eliminate those string noises that you think you want to hear.  As those noises are real and natural I'm okay with them, but if they can be reduced without otherwise diminishing the overall listening experience then I'm in favor of that.  It's what we call signal-to-noise ratio.

BDP, I agree--I've been really enjoying harpsichord recordings lately, especially an old LP of Ralph Kirpatrick playing Scarlatti and a two-record box of Igor Kipnis playing assorted English pieces.  The sound is frighteningly real!

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