This is similar to electing to discard all history prior to some given date (say 1958?) on the basis of it having been inaccurately recorded (in the physical, not sonic, sense of that word). The War of 1812? Might as well have never happened...no photographs or sound recording prove it did!
Further, the human mind is much more powerful as a sound editing device than any analog or digital hardware! When I listen to a century-old 78, my mind neatly edits out the noise and seems to recreate the missing sound based on its experience!
Finally, ANY sound recording is only SIMILAR...not IDENTICAL...to the performance it purports to represent! Until transducers with the exact same characteristics as the human ear (these would, of course, require one set of transducers per listener!) exist, along with devices that can allow the human brain to receive the recorded information directly (anything else by definition cannot exactly duplicate sounds as experienced)...what each listener hears (or THINKS he/she/it hears) is the performance, as picked up by microphones, transformed into electric signals, processed by various hardware (and, in most cases, intervening individuals), reconverted into electrical signals, which then are converted to mechanical action, and that action is somehow recorded in physical form. The result is then "played"...a process in which the mechanically-recorded information is re-transformed into an electrical signal which then drives an electric-to-sound transducer. Needless to say, there are...MUST be...differences (thus losses) in each intermediary step...no conversion is, or can be, perfect!
It is also interesting to think about what we actually experience at live performances, given all the unwanted noise that our brains edit out...it would be an interesting experience to position a pair of microphones in a simulation of an average audience seat, and record EXACTLY the sound...unwanted and wanted...that that listener would hear!
Steven C. Barr