“Bottom line, it’s gonna be a long, long time before true reality is reproduced in the home..”
I went to a Nana Mouskouri concert decades ago and found what seems prevalent today. Her studio recordings were so replete with multitracking, that it was impossible to reproduce her really good stuff on stage. The “reality” of much of what one heard on her records and over the radio could ONLY be reproduced in the home on the stereo.
Reminds me of “auto-tuning” to tweek bad voices into good, on-key vocals...ala Brittany Spears.
IIRC, it was Cher who first used “auto-tuning”.