Cost-no-object dynamic range is limited by the mastering choices of the engineers long, long before it's limited by either any limit of recording technology or any limit of speakers. Because commercial recordings are not mastered for cost-no-object systems or environments. Such recordings would be unlistenable on typical systems(domestic noise floors too high, SPL output too limited).
If you make your *own* recordings, then yeah, you can have true to life dynamic range out of speakers, why not?
In a search for new monitors, I’ve encountered a thread in which I saw a discussion with Waldo2 which caught my attention. I’ve soon discovered how most of all discussion ends in frequency response charts, dynamics range, dispersion patterns etc. and more SPL blah. Speaker talk. Sound is much more than a couple of high-end transducers trying to reproduce natural occurring sounds of instruments as accurate as possible. Its funny how we as humans developed sound chambers as the Philharmonic de Paris, Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo, Musikverein in Vienna and many others to listen to unamplified acoustic orchestral instruments. Those are the best amps we have to date.
An audio recording engineer knows how to translate an acoustic or electronic performance to an electronic platform with the least amount concessions. During this translation we lose most of all-natural occurring acoustic phenomenon and properties of sound. Especially of acoustic instruments.
If you talk to musicians with their endless tuning talk of their acoustic instruments, you soon realize it's all about one thing. How the instrument excites the air. This knowledge is frequently so detailed, it’s astonishing. From string gauge to materials used on their specific instruments and the best temperature and location for their instruments. You soon realize It’s all about acoustic resonance. I still wonder what’s the role of quantum and psycho acoustics when we perceive sound. How the smallest of birds generate sound at enormous sound pressure levels while weighing less than 1000 grams, and better yet why?! How elephants manipulate low frequencies for omni directional communication. There is still so much to discover in the audio realm. I’m still amazed how we instantly detect live from recorded music just by passing by. We now can even resonate hearable sound frequency in liquid to light emitting frequencies in controlled environments. Insane amplification levels. In natural disasters they are still civilizations that now how and when to follow animals in earthquakes. Meaning some species have capable senses to echolocate very low frequencies and avoid danger.
I didn’t want to be dragged in endless 2.1 discussions. I’m just fascinated by sound and not primarily speakers.
To each their own.
Panta Rhei.