I actually saw a program on discovery channel not too long ago about a person who was experimenting with sound.
One of the things they tried was to record the individual instruments from an orchestra and then setup a stage with platforms conforming to the location of each musical instrument. On each platform they placed a single speaker and then tried to replay the symphony essentially using a seperate source for each speaker which replayed the music.
It was an attempt at reproducing true live sound using home speaker equipment. I can't remember the rest of the details. I started falling asleep.
