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

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.

@wweiss --

I ask again, can we at this time reproduce accurately the power of a symphony orchestra in the home?

The "power" of a live full scale symphony orchestra is very much about a sum of things and as such a composite term, so much indeed that the recording itself does quite a lot to minimize any attempt at a replicated experience when reproduced. Power, other than SPL is also about scale, size of image and a sense of the whole location while being totally effortless at that, which is to say the need for sheer physics to be accommodated and the ability to image properly - in a larger space/at a proper distance. Implementation is paramount, acoustically as well (i.e.: I loath over-deadened rooms from too much absorption; it kills the energy and expansion of sound, and has nothing to do with a live sound imprinting), but it's all for nothing if the speakers can't fill the space effortlessly at any desired SPL to begin with (and remember: you always need more capability than you'll ever need - it's called 'headroom'). I believe the latter part is usually underestimated, if it's even prioritized.

More specifically to the question posed: even if we wanted to, not really. Not if the impression and experience of a live acoustic symphony orchestra in a large auditorium is dear to you, and you truly take it in. Nothing reproduced comes significantly close in my experience, and in any case we can only do so much with what's afforded us via the limited nature of the recording itself. 

@mijostyn --

Wow, more of you are saying no than I would have expected. This tells me many have yet to hear a 1st class system.

I'd say it's about maintaining the importance and comprehending the nature of a live acoustic event, and being honest to that. You can't possibly speak on behave of a plethora of set-ups you've heard as anything being representative, other than (mostly) your own; 8 ft. floor-to-ceiling ESL's and sub-augmented at that isn't your daily cup of tea, even among more all-out assaults in audiophilia, and it's an important physics part wholly missing in most set-ups to approximate and truer live imprinting.  

The best systems actually have better sound than you get at most concerts and easily match the volume levels if that is what you want.

What's your specific concert context here? A live acoustic event IS the reference, unless you're badly seated and the acoustics play a severe trick on you. It seems to me you're after something else than live sound qua live sound. Matching live sound levels can be somewhat ameliorated in a home environment due to constricted spacing, which at the same time is a potential problem per above earlier mentioned; one needs "power" as it plays out in proper, not too constricted spacings, which in turn places more demands on the speakers and their size and SPL capabilities.  

As frequently the case, MC says it best. Electrically reproduced music is an art. Art is a vehicle that “comments” on aspects of life.
When does Art become Life? When there is a suspension of disbelief. As with a stereo system of a certain quality, there are surely elements of that Art that touch our sensibilities and engender an emotional response. Is Art actually life? Is the sound of a great stereo system life... no. Is it enjoyable... yes!

No.  It's all a recreated illusion.  And I'm glad of it.

1.  In my apartment, every disk I play Always sounds exactly the same.  Never had I been attended a Live Performance and gotten EXACTLY the same performance as the night or two ago playing the same program.  Nor have I performed and experienced that "same" performance as the night before.  For the better or worst.

2. A solo artist with a guitar would fit in my apartment.  4 musicians maybe. Symphony Orchestra, No way.

3.  There is more to music than achieving high SPLs of Live Music.  What about the pianissimos?  Or the No Play (rest) notes.  The space between the notes you hear.  Just as important.
Holy moly! Drums?!   I played in jazz bands.  When we were all were mic'd.  Most of the time the drum set was not.  When we were not mic'd, I/we could not play over that drummer.  In an orchestra of 100+ musicians.  There usually is only 1 each percussion instrument.  When there was a need for multiples of them, the 100 became 150+.   When I got called in as a "bumper" the usual 4-5 of became 8 of us in the french horn section.

4.  My system can't.  If it could I would get evicted if I even come close to the spl of a live performance.  My neighbor had taken to his electric guitar 2:30 in the morning.  Bars closes at 2.  I thought it was hilarious.  Landlord didn't.   Girlfriend is still here.  He is not.

A fascinating aspect of this I forgot to mention, it was Eric Alexander being a professional drummer who was upset with the inability of even SOTA audio to reproduce that sound that motivated him to invent his MTM array. His Tekton speakers are phenomenal success. So in spite of the fact no one really wants an actual drum kit in their home (well almost no one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVFFjp90ouU ) we do appreciate being able to get reasonably close.