Do we really know what "Live" music sounds like?

Am I the only one that the only thing that really stuck with me from the article was how the author thinks it’s OK to go into a music store and lie to the workers and waste their time trying to improve the sound of the author’s system?

Most live music I have heard has sucked, especially rock music, utterly dreadful....big over blown booming bass...way way too loud....saw imagine dragons a few years back, sounded mostly awful. Marron 5 at the TD garden sounded a little better....However, the Boston symphony Holiday pops concert at Boston’s Symphony hall sounded fantastic. Ahhhh the good old days! Just a short two years ago! Insane....

Live music used to be the preferred method for street beggars. 

Some were darn good too. Now you just need a #1 black felt tip marker

and some folded cardboard and you can make more than the people

at MacDonalds in less time.

Can tell the folks who read the article.

enjoying the answers and the non answers.

love this stuff. 

@secretguy nailed it. I’ve got an hour or two (entire life) of listening to live music. 
What we hear recorded is always subject to the mics (brand, type, etc) any amplification at all, placement of mics and post production. There are a million other variables as well. But, it doesn’t matter. Good sound, is good sound. That is somewhat in the eye of the beholder, but the general baseline is pretty universal. Some people listen better than others, some people just prefer what they prefer. Sometimes this game is just too analytical and we forget to just get absorbed in the moment. When that is easy to do, then good sound is what you have.