Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War?

“Fidelity is Musicality”! Surely one can dissect the sound from an audiophile perspective. But I choose not to “tear apart the flower”.
By doing so, the flower is no longer beautiful.
Admittedly, I do take note of the imaging. But am very fortunate to have a system that is able to create a suspension of disbelief.
And that term brings me to a central element of the difference of a live performance. Amplified or not, disbelieve is not at issue.
THE central element of a live performance is that there are human beings. Not an electronic recreation. No matter how much fidelity/musicality of a system, it cannot recreate a live experience.

I should have said “Fidelity is Musicality or Vis-à-versa”.
I like the metaphor that improvement in SQ is akin to focus of a camera. When things sound clear, the focus of the SQ is “right”.