Hi Jimbo,
You are not saying anything that we don't already know. The hobby is home audio reproduction. There is a given that we are reproducing recorded media at home and that the best we can do is reproduce what was recorded. These ideas of yours, and watchnerds. are not discounted. But they are the understood "You" at the beginning of the sentence.
These things you keep repeating and repeating and repeating are accepted and known by audio hobbyist. Any question put forth are within the context of this hobby and the hobby understands that we are reproducing a recording of a band. But there can still be a question outside of this context, or at least I would think we are capable of that.
If someone says that a recording has a "live type" sound to it. You, and watchnerd, can (please) take comfort in knowing that people in this audio hobby know that we are listening to a recording on a reproduction system. Some of us may also have several recording at home already of various recording techniques. We know that different studio's record using different equipment and techniques, we accept this as part of the hobby of home audio reproduction.
But we can also say that such and such a studio does a good job at recording live bands. Shouldn't we also be able to say that such and such speakers present instruments in a manner that gives us the feeling of live sound. Again, all the context stands that was discussed before, we know this. You don't have unknown secret knowledge that nobody has thought about before. The points you bring up are valid and the most basic premise of thought that this hobby knows. We can know this and have a conversation accepting the context of the hobby.
You really are only going to condescend rather than answer the one question I want you to. I've asked it at least 3 times now. I don't want to know who you have seen, where, what wood their guitar was laminated with or what you ate for dinner that night.
What have you done to get your system closer to the "live" sound that you desire? In one of your earliest posts in this thread, you say :
"Exactly what I am after is sound the captures that "live" element, that "live" tone, spl, effortlessness and that "live" silence. Most of the concerts that I go to are in smaller venues that have excellent sounding rooms"
The closest you have come to saying how you achieved that was by saying you got "drivers that are low distortion and capable of playing high spl". Well, knock me down with a feather.
You obviously know the sound you want, but seriously, is that all you are going to give us? Speakers that go loud without distorting?
The issue isn't my seeming childlike naivety in not understanding your sophisticated tastes, your wealth of experience. It's your absolute inability to say anything of relevance to the question I have been asking.