So, as long as the purpose of recording is to create an artificial experience instead of recreating the original sound, it will be pointless to compare recordings to original performances or expect realistic results ; they are purposely different.
We are speaking of live musicians performing on acoustical instruments in an acoustical environment. When recording, we are not attempting to capture the concert experience. By artfully placing the microphones and enhancing the results by further processing, we are trying to create an audio imitation of that experience to be reproduced in an area of much smaller cubic volume in which playback is accomplished through speakers, not headphones.