people coments on listening a stero recording in the 21st century

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There actually quite a few stereo recordigs that were recorded using simple mike setups.

Problem is that it requires quite a bit of extra effort at the recording stage.

So it's cheaper to just record the instruments individually, and not as a whole.

Of course that make's real stero impossible.
That's why some of those (older) stereo recordings haven quite a following.

Check out Mercury's living presence series for instance.

And then get into High End stero and go broke.