....so maybe Yamaha and other equipment mfgs are working toward solution with sound fields...mid price computers now have excellent hand writing recognition and sound field may be able to reproduce very accurately real listening venues.Owning a Yamaha with 44 soundfields, I am aware how weak they are at present. However it may be within the realm of possibility to encode recordings with sound field information that can be decoded by inexpensive receivers.....of course that doesnt solve the problem of individual listening environments (ie your home) within which the actual listening occurs...soooo...perhaps only with some kind of closed ear headphones could you recreate an actual live listening experience.