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Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by eecc on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:06PM (#27186272)
I also thought the same, then I went to listen some orchestral performance at the Rome Auditorium.

During an interval I was sitting in a shitty corner up on some balcony, pretty far; but I could hear the voice and discern the words of a girl chatting down in the platea next to an entrance.

A single mouth, chatting, among hundreds other voices.

During the concert you could hear the individual performers’ instruments, the strings rubbing, the valves clicking. I was blown away

Re:Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio by thirdsun on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:02AM (#27191948)
A critical factor in this experience was the actual room. Anyone dealing with audio and hifi will confirm how much great acoustics depend on a well treated room.

While most of us can't live in such a purpose-optimized room I think OP's point was that a bunch of high quality speakers in that very same auditorium might have yielded very similar results to your experience.