> listening to prerecorded audio of a concert would be indistinguishable from a live concert It seems to me this would be really dependent on the type of music

> listening to prerecorded audio of a concert would be indistinguishable from a live concert It seems to me this would be really dependent on the type of music and the size of the venue. In a large percentage of the bigger shows I've been to, the sound was honestly pretty awful. That's not really what I was there for. I was there to see what the artist(s) could do unedited in real time, in person, and to be (somewhat) physically near them when it happened. It's a different skillset from what they do in recordings.