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You have hit upon THE biggest issue and misunderstanding in all of audio

Audio recording and playback is not an attempt to recreate an original event. It is an attempt to create an illusion of an original event from a single perspective. The difference is lost on so many and yet it is sooooo significant. People who chase "accuracy" in components are chasing their tails and looking for trees when they should be looking at a forest. All the accuracy in the world between the transducers will be meaningless if one ignores the fact that recording and playback is essentially smoke and mirrors. It's an aural illusion. It has to be looked at as a system and one has to forget about the idea of "recreation" of an original event and focus on the illusion.

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