Do we really know what "Live" music sounds like?

Let talk the live music.

live music is based on music instruments. Not one ,but many kinds of. Different instrument make out different sounds, Piano,drum, violin  are very popular but they are very different. You can never ask the piano get the sound like the sound from drum,right? so It is the group of instruments to make out the sound.

But for the amplifiers,it is just one or two(Pre+power),they take all the jobs, they re-produce all the sound from all the instruments. 

so it is unfair to ask the amplifier to make the same or almost same soundstage.

This is the point we understand the amplifier and we can never ever expect the  real live music coming from that equipments..

Back to the amplifier + speaker. If you want the system to have live music, the key is on the right pre. Preamplifiers could be very different,some very high price pre could filter some sparkle of the recording,which you do not know if you do not compare.

@axo0oxa

I am fully agree with you and you are talking the details which I do not on my prior post. Thank you!

The key word to description the while story is "imitate", we use electric device to imitate the live sound, which is completely different things ,but let you feel almost same, and let us enjoy and happy. It is the movies, and it is the carton movies, and try to tell you the real things, which is far far away.

I suddenly find a good example now. In old times, when the society is not so stable, the president have one or more than one substitutes, and they will attend some public ceremony ( Usually the substitute do not speak a lot as it will expose the different with the real one). The real one is the live music in the music hall and the substitute is the music system home,which does not matter how much expensive the devices are.

The internal principle is different, and different by far, and they just try hard to imitate the real one. That’s it.