The freaky thing is sometimes with a good system, the sound is SO good it sounds better than Live music! :-D ;*)

Actually, it should almost always sound better than Live music. Take a studio-created song, with dozens of re-takes, a sound engineer to equalize and re-master it, and a quarter-million dollars worth of recording equipment, and compare it to some poor guy on stage in a room with terrible acoustics and people shuffling and talking in the audience, playing through $1200 worth of amplifiers and the house speakers.... which do you think is going to sound better?

Best example I can think of is to compare the three songs in common between "Exit Stage Left" and "Moving Pictures" by Rush. The "Live" performance is miserable by comparison.

tanstaafl.