Excellent points... almost no hi-fi no matter how high end actually captures what instruments in the room sound like since instruments just don't act the same w

Excellent points... almost no hi-fi no matter how high end actually captures what instruments in the room sound like since instruments just don't act the same way. The recordings themselves don't capture a lot of that information or have it mastered out, so the loudspeakers can never put it back in. The soundboard of a piano or the top of an acoustic instrument for example just don't work like a loud speaker. Drums pack a ridiculous punch in the room that speakers rarely capture. Guitar amps do all kinds of strange things in the room due to purposely designed in imperfections that are often missing in the recordings.