Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It

@mahgister 

«I don’t know what happens when we die, 

We get to meet Elvis (I hope) :)

@hsbrock 

First of all thanks for your post, very articulate and welcome to the forum.

There is nothing else besides stereo.

uhhhh, what about the Beatles recording in mono BEFORE the albums were converted to stereo? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_in_Mono

I read the article about the techie in Vegas & Santana

Thank you.

I just want to hear the musician, accurately, reproduced faithfully, in high fidelity. 

I agree. My first statement in the OP was a preference for live music over a recording. I learned some members prefer a CD over the actual live musician in your listening space, interesting.

I am curious more  about Bach and Scriabin...😊😉

and Elvis is not dead anyway...

@mahgister 

«I don’t know what happens when we die, 

We get to meet Elvis (I hope) :)

@kota1. “…I am in the camp that a good system can play music or movies, channel or object based audio…”

I think this comment of yours identifies the point of contention. Playing music and music by definition is a home theater system.  The  assumption that a home theater system will reproduce music as well, very few of us would agree with. Most of us want the very best audio playback possible. That requires the very highest quality and fewest components possible. Those of us that have, or tried both know that multichannel is highly compromised with respect to music… so, say for an investment level.

So what you are saying is you want an immersive home theater system. So, I am confused as to what the point is. 

I am skeptical of the value of having a sweet spot so minuscule that you cannot have more than one person enjoy a system. If only one seat lets the system sound right, you might as well use headphones and save on speakers. 

There is another limitation. Some live performances have musicians up in balconies behind the audience for dramatic effect. No multi-channel recordings duplicate this.