zd542, your post reminds me, as if I'll ever forget, the experience of taking in Bach's Mass in B Minor with my wife and a friend and his wife that wanted to see a "classical concert". Bad choice! I had to contend with the kids and their giggling, it became too much and we had to leave before intermission. Our immediate neighbors were NOT amused, in their deathly silence.
Is it live or is it?
Every concert I ever went to had a sound system consisting of horn loaded PA systems. So what are we doing spending all this cash in pursuit of feeling as if we are there when the entire chain of equipment is so different at home versus in any venue...?