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"Ever walk down the street and pass a building and hear a piano playing through a partially open window around the corner and be able to tell it's a real piano being played inside, not a typical stereo system? Frequency response is surely shot to hell, yet you know it's the real thing because the tone and coherence is preserved."

I would argue it's the dynamics and lack of distortion.

"You don't want a recording of unamplified classical or folk music to sound like it's coming out of a rock concert sound system, so why try to mimic such a system to faithfully reproduce the music?"

That depends on the quality of the system. Note that the best home horn systems are based on theater and recording studio speakers, quite a difference from much PA gear which sometimes compromises some sound quality to gain greater power handling and reliability. In any event rock and roll PAs when done right sound like huge high quality stereos, I worked scores of shows when I was a bouncer for Jam and I heard some first-rate sound. Though not of classical or folk music.

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