> What's so special about the soundwaves going into your ears tongue in cheek answer: nothing. It's your ears that are special. Less tongue in cheek, while w

> What's so special about the soundwaves going into your ears tongue in cheek answer: nothing. It's your ears that are special. Less tongue in cheek, while we have got pretty good at making microphones, they don't behave anything like human audio system; this makes it really difficult to reproduce what we experience when generated a different way (e.g. multichannel playback). There is nothing "special" about classical music here either, it's just got a lot of complexity (from multiple instruments, and room dynamics) and dynamic range. I see your point: if we could a) design microphones that capture everything going by them in a neutral way and b) design speakers that precisely reproduce everything they are sent in a neutral way, and c) set up a room to reproduce things in a neutral way for your particular position ... then this would work. We can't actually do any of those things.