I think it depends on the style of music. I guess for orchestral / classical music it's good. But for other styles, I don't enjoy concerts for audio quality.

I think it depends on the style of music. I guess for orchestral / classical music it's good. But for other styles, I don't enjoy concerts for audio quality. It's usually way too loud, so you have to wear earplugs. I've heard some made for this don't skew audio too much, but they are still a filter. And then you have to like the balance that's chosen by the audio engineers and they are often not ideal. The voices can sometimes be not loud enough to the point you don't hear the words well, the bass too loud. Frequencies don't all travel the same way, so if you are too far away some things are missing or distorted, etc. And then there's the noises from other people, the claps, the screams, etc. And the audio still possibly went through some kind of non-analog equipment. Not saying that feeling the bass in your whole body and feeling the communicative / excited atmosphere from the crowd can't be enjoyable but for audio quality, I'd rather listen to music in a calm room with some good equipment, at a volume level comfortable to me, when audio engineering didn't have to be live and could be (even) more carefully managed. > If you can tolerate PCM Are there people who can't tolerate it? It must not be very convenient. (Huge caveat to this comment: I listen to music most of my awaken hours, but I'm not an audiophile. I never carefully listen to music, it's usually in the background.)