At This Time Can We Recreate Full Range Live Music In The Home?


I read on this web site some members claim they go to the symphony orchestra and are "convinced" their system reproduces the experience. I agree with vocals, light percussion, acoustic music, light jazz, the best systems come very close. My experience comes from being a semi professional drummer for 40+ years. I currently have acoustic and electronic drums in my home. I play in a huge open space with 20 foot cathedral ceilings. I think I can state that I know what live drums sound like. Can even the six figure systems reproduce the attack and decay of a 20 inch crash cymbal? I say "maybe" in the future but not now! What makes me laugh is we audiophiles myself included will spend many, many thousands of dollars trying to reproduce the sound of a $20 triangle or a $15 woodblock or a $10 shaker. Play the song Aja by Steely Dan. I can play on my system the drum solo by the great Steve Gadd at realistic volume levels-if you dare -but it is not the same as real drums!! I don’t know if I can’t convince people that are not musicians. Not putting non-musicians down. Quoting my dad, "You don’t have to be a horse to be a horse doctor." Another quote by John Lennon. Someone asked him what he was listening to. He responded, "Dripping water."  It would be interesting to know how many of the greatest producers/engineers are or are not musicians or vocalists.
Some statistics: Soft drums 105dB, hard drums up to 130dB, kick drum/timpani 106-111dB, ride cymbal 101dB, toms 110dB, ride bell 115dB, crash 113dB, snare 120dB, rimshot 125dB. I have a system that could produce 125dB, would I -NO WAY I value my #1 instrument -my ears. So the drums are playing at 125dB peaks, now add in the other 80+ members of the symphony orchestra-how loud now? I ask again, can we at this time reproduce accurately the power of a symphony orchestra in the home? For many of us this is the Holy Grail of being an audiophile - Keep Searching!
wweiss
No tablejockey, they do not. Not at all. You just have not heard one but, they are rare. What most people think are top notch systems are just a hap hazard collection of equipment strapped together and turned on. Very few systems are purposely designed and skillfully tuned in a room designed for music reproduction.
@jasonbourne”Altec Voice Of The Theater!”
these were my system in the 70s - bi-amed (60w 15”, and 30w to horns. 
Audiophile?
A: yes by definition. B: not high end by a long shot. 
All I had to start were Sheffield Lab direct to disc recordings. Concert hall levels; not concer hall resolution. 
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A Good Billy Cobham recording is a hoot - many of his recordings are great, well mic’d, and well mastered. “Warning” was my intro to Cobham. 
Oops, I digressed again 😎
Simple answer, NO. Why would you want that kind of volume? I need to save my ears. Clarity and dynamic range, maybe close.
Dear @mijostyn : So, what are you saying?:

that some times you can mimic the kind of live MUSIC sound where in between you and the MUSIC source exist only air and that you can do it ( mimic . ) through a recording where that live MUSIC must pass through " THOUSANDS " of tortuose steps that all over the recording and and playing process makes a heavy degradation to that live MUSIC signal?

Come on, you are better than that. What I posted is only common sense not rocket science, please read again and try not to be biased with your room/system experiences that can’t do it no matter what and in a polyte way: does not matters what you think about.

Just common sense. 

R.