We choose which lie we like the most and go with it. Some may be better
than others, but there is no way that a microphone and a speaker can
reproduce sound the way that our ear hears it. Ears are pretty amazing
things if you think about it. The way that they can pick up faint sound and
perceive directionality is pretty amazing. Speakers give us an
approximation, but it ain't the real thing. Period.

I'm sorry, but you're wrong.

If you would set up a W/X/Y Ambisonic array with really good mics, and play it
back through first-rate speakers, you'd be startled.

It is possible to come pretty damned close, in playback, to what you heard live.