The Absolute Sound vs Pleasing Sound

Wise move....

I never suffered from this illusion, i am lucky....

I did never enjoy lived event much, being "allergic" to crowd, a crowd being for me more that 4 persons...

I know it is a "disease" but an uncurable one... I love people very much but only on very small scale....

Then i never entertain the illusory superiority of lived event with the nostalgia of past lived collective concert for example.... Lived event and recorded one, it is not the same thing at all.... The only link between the 2 ,eyes closed, are the music, not the sound....

An intelligent and well founded view I think. At least if mirrors mine. :-)

Learn a musical instrument and play with other musicians. That's the "absolute sound"-live music.  Next best attend a concert.

Other than that, it's all illusion.