Why I like my home system better than live music

@Lloydc

You will find jerks at any concerts. I have some experience working as a volunteer behind a bar. I prefer a rock audience over a jazz crowd.

With rock/metal concerts I talk about acts like My Dying Bride, Slayer, Machine Head, Opeth etc.

Elizabeth you are so wrong about the crowds at rock/metal concerts. They are the most friendly easy going people I know. At jazz or classical concerts everyone is so uptight and full of themselves. At a rock concert you can have a friendly chat with almost anyone and share a beer.

I love going to concerts, especially rock or metal. The vibe and atmosphere is just great. If you go to a rock or metal concert just to hear music and see a band play you go for the wrong reasons. You go there to have a nice time. To have a beer talk and get drunk with friends and to see a band play. I want to be entertained when I go to see a band. That is why seated rock or metal shows are a failure and should be avoided; also seated rock/metal shows never happen in Europe thank God.

Some bands like SUN O))) can only be really enjoyed live.

Also live music classical or whatever is a totally different medium from recorded music. Two totally separate entities’. I don't want a PA sound at home neither do I want a hifi sound a concert. At the end of the month I’m going to graspop for the 10th time. It’s a 3 day metal festival with about 200 bands playing.

I could go on but I have to go for now.

People complain about rock concerts being to loud and they have a point. But remember a full orchestra can also go over 100 dB. I have been to a concert hall and depending on the piece played it can reach SPL where it almost starts to hurt. When you have over a 100 musicians in a orchestra hall going full out with a large copper section it can get really loud. Many musicians are a "little" deaf because of this. Especially the one sitting just in front of the copper section.

We the audience will never know how the artist intended that music. Most of the time the artist doesn't have any say in the mixing or production process of an album.

The "storm" sound effects with "riders on the storm" was not an idea by the Doors. The original Let it be Album by the Beatles was also heavily modified by Phil Spector.

I think this happens all the time. The artist delivers the raw material and the label will turn it into an album of which they hope they will sell millions.