Sound and Music

Yes, live music, especially an orchestra, or big band can never be accurately depicted it the home.  A concert hall is not a living room.  It is true that smaller ensembles can come close.  
I also agree that records are especially troublesome, and it’s difficult to listen past vinyl problems. 
If one listens solely for sound, eventually that’s all one hears, and it can bring  you to a very dark place where the music disappears altogether.

In order to enjoy a record or CD (streaming,) one has to ignore the anomalies of sound which are inevitably there and listen to the music.  
Too many of us listen for the anamolies.

Some would consider this a cop out, but I find that a mild cannabis high does wonders for filling in the blanks. I consider cannabis to be a sort of sonic filter that nearly always agrees with me and is a part of my "system." Lots of musicians would agree.

I have 2 midfi surround systems and then my two channel system with the good gear.  I can be enjoying listening to the mid fi but always feel that sense of relief when I shift to the main listening room 

Music is not only a pulse,vibration,beat,rythm, i felt in my body, nor it is only a timbre gorgeous auditive perception but it is a set of colors also visible as a dynamics distributed  in space as in a movie.

With high attention orchestral music is so fascinating for me because it tell a story more or less abstract, as in a movie. Choral music begin to be indicibly beautiful. Jazz more visceral or more abstract or even sometimes the two at the same time. Persian music and indian music are like philosophical treatise in sounds. The emotions are highly elevated.

Bruckner Fifth  symphony for example for me is an archetypal description of a human life from beginning to end...

Cannabis only increase this state but does not create it.  Deep Attention create it.

Then sound characteristic in space , their  timbre volume and colored dynamic, their fractals are more important than just sound superficial  isolated and measurable attribute : as bass, high, dynamic, transients and superficial attributes as imaging or soundstage etc Volume of playing instrument his projection in space matter more because in the imaging process the soundstage dimension must reproduce the dimensional distance between the sound source and the listener position and envelopment.  I used acoustic, mechanical and electrical embedding devices to increase or optimize this holographic reproduction of the initial recording acoustic specificities.

Acoustic rule audio not price tags...