Is there anything better than live recordings?

A famous musician once compared studio recording to live performing as building a ship in a bottle vs being in a rowboat on the open sea. 

I'll listen to nearly any quality of live recording if the performance is compelling enough. The studio setting allows for a broader pallet of tools to be used in the creative process. Live performance is art in real time.

Think it that way, two different worlds, one is a love letter the other a hot date.

Melody Gardot, Live in Europe - great example of quality recording (especially vinyl) and artist variation on stage.

Been to, oh, a thousand or so concerts in last 50yrs (from Hip Hop to the Bolshoi), I have about 500 CDs and about 4000 songs saved on Qobuz. I have never, ever, heard a live recording of a track sound as good as the studio. Only very rarely does the live show sound as good - never better - than the studio recording. As a rule I avoid listening to live recordings because of this. A live show is the mutual gift between the performer/writer and the audience and studio recordings only have acoustic energy. So you get that connection and real human energy from a show. But sounds better? Never.

Live can be good to bad, studio can be good to bad- Seems like addressing a hypothetical “ideally equal” is a waste of time as superior sonics should be the goal regardless of live or not