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What's with the numbering.
1. One can presume room correction is more enjoyable, but it's not perfect and enjoyment is subjective.
2. The food analogy is simple, some people don't understand why some people like to spend their time looking for tasty food. Does the fact that there's no bit-perfect copies of the same food mean there are not people who don't understand why people spend their time looking for tasty food?
3. What does this have to do with anything?
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I'm a numbers person.
1. Don't understand,if you could exactly reproduce the live listening experience why would you not enjoy it as much? Are you having a bad day? Not enough Lemon Merange perhaps.
The only thing (although not insignificant) a 2 speaker sound system cannot ever reproduce is the directionality of sound created by each individual instrument or noise source. e.g With a live orchestra instruments are located at various positions in 3D space relative to a listener. The only way to EXACTLY reproduce this with would be with a speaker at each instrument location relative to the listener when playing back the sound.
Perhaps with several speakers in a system it is possible to simulate this with DSP, but it would still be an approximation. I don't know to what degree the human ear can resolve directionality so I don't know if there would be a perceived difference with the live concert with this approach. Has anyone researched this?
As I stated a feedback system would be required. This would be of the form of some sort of microphone at the playback listening position. Like a real time version of the room calibration device currently provided in AV systems. I don't know if this sort of 'real time' room adjustment is featured in any current systems.
2. I think you are saying some people don't understand why other people like certain things? While this is certainly applicable to Hi Fi it is also applicable to just about everything else in life. I am not sure if it is applicable to this thread in the sense that it a vast subject in itself, and there is no 'correct' answer. Belief, Philosophy, Religion etc. IMO ultimately the 'correct' opinion in these sorts of debates is normally the side with the most powerful armed forces.
3. A lot more than food
. Science vs subjectivity. Isn't this more or less what this thread about? I highly recommend the quoted source if you are interested in this subject.