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"In a live acoustic living room sized concert with piano"

A piano in a living room most certainly will be blurred as far as perceived "soundstaging" is concerned. It's worse than blurred. Any decent piano will overload just about any living room and screw the sound up in many ways.

"When you stand in front of two friends talking at the same time the soundstaging is not blurred....is it?"

Actually it is pretty vague depending on the distance you are from the two of them. It seems otherwise due to the McGurk effect.

"One friend is clearly to the right and one friend is clearly to the left and if the distance is unequal you have no trouble hearing that....right?"

Wrong. By sound alone it is not nearly so clear as you might think. Again, the McGurk effect is in play.

"I think a true stereo recording can have pretty actuate soundstaging."

I think it can too. It just won't sound as good as inaccurate soundstaging that is perceptually more precise than accurate soundstaging.

"Three or four musicians playing acoustic instruments together in a nice sounding room being recorded with one single point stereo microphone gives a believable, natural sounding soundstage."

Indeed it can. But it aint even close to accurate. If it were accurate the separation of instruments would be completely blurred and it would be next to impossible to point to exact positioning of the instruments.

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