Cool thought. I love studio recordings.
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Yeah, Brahms didnāt write a symphony for playback on hi-fi but an actual studio album is a work of art whose medium is the hi-fi system. Makes sense.
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For me, it helps that Iām not a big fan of the large āclassicalā orchestral works - when the 17th,18th,19th century composers went large on key modulation in a massed orchestra (because they finally could, post equal-temprement and finer instrument engineering) they just went too large, for my liking 
Gross generalisations going on there of course!
(also helps to explain why the generation raised on this stuff that also heard contemporary/RnB etc. etc. thought the latter was rubbish with itās concentration on rhythm and melody, and it also feeds into racist white supremacist narratives of āprimitive musicā, but thatās a whole other debate that Iām not getting into - because Iāve never seen that on this here forum )
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That really speaks to how we all get high on different stuff. I canāt get enough of that full late 19th/early 20th century orchestra with all the bells and whistles!
Itās always cool to hear how the very thing that gives me goose bumps turns another person off and sometimes vice-versa.
Enjoying your comments on this thread.
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Thanks - I can talk nonsense with the best of them
Itās a shame really because a large orchestra, and also a large pipe organ, both strike me as early iterations of the desire for a multi timbal synthesiser.
Later iterations of course being things like the mellotron, the synclavier, and then the fairlight and all the other samplers that followed (samplers also old hat now).
The orchestra strikes me as unique amongst them in that the various voices/timbres/pipe ranks/sample-banks equivalent are done by humans, with one conductor āplayingā.