I'll say all that I heard live, prompting me to never listen to Opera by choice. Either Live, in person or recorded.
One of the things I found about the difference between live music and recorded music is that a little thing called "phase response" of the loudspeakers. In situations where you might have control over the acoustics in-room, if the loudspeakers have more than ~90 degrees of phase shift across the treble band, you might be
hearing that harshness a lot more than in live performance.
So I've found there is typically a reason why people don't like certain genres and periods of music--due to how the loudspeakers reproduce it. In my case, I noticed that I was suddenly listening to a lot of 19th century (Schubert-->Bruckner) music that really didn't appeal to me earlier once I flattened the phase response.
I've also found that the five "Joe Bonamassa - in London" discs became a lot easier to listen to once I flattened the phase of all the loudspeakers in the 5.1. I still find them difficult to listen to, particularly when the wife is around--who has more sensitive ears than I do, but they can be listened to now.
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As far as other music videos, my votes would go to limited set of DVDs and a few Blu-Rays (I haven't acquired 4K concert discs yet). The audio is usually still in 24 bit/48 kHz anyway, regardless of video resolution.
My favorites are actually classical (for instance,
Beethoven Symphonies 1-9 [Mariss Jansons] and
Beethoven Piano Concertos 1-5 [Barenboim] in 5.1 format are pretty spectacular-relative to the stereo tracks), but I sense that the musical tastes here are a bit more, well, lets say, "focused on other genres".
For 21st century jazz (fusion), I strongly recommend Pat Metheny's
The Way Up-Live on Blu-Ray. In surround format, it is really engaging (a continuous composition for like 70 minutes). The
Jeff Beck Live at Tony Scott's sounds pretty loud to me (i.e., clipped and a bit compressed). James Taylor Live (if you're of that generation) is always engaging as an acoustic show, as is Alison Krauss + Union Station-Live. Again--it's a matter of musical tastes. If you were born later than that...well...
The
Clapton Unplugged concert is nice on DVD, but I find it a bit too compressed and a maybe a little muffled.
YMMV.
Chris
