At least with live music one will not encounter 'sibilance' with vocals. But back in the days of 70's live Rock gigs the sound was so awful that I remember suffering from sound buzzing in my ears for a long time after the concert. Especially the time when I was directly positioned on the side where Ritchie Blackmore's guitar came out of the huge concert speaker, it was good to know the tunes of the songs played in advance because one would not recognise the song actually played live in concert because of the distortion of the loud sound.....!