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Quest to achieve live sound

I have often found myself at concerts where JBLs are used for sound. Yet I have spent a whole lot of money over the years investing in high end when perhaps a set of Peevey's or similar PA speakers would have been enough to get me closer to the holy grail. Any comments or similar feelings of other members?
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tvad
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02-01-10: Ncarv
Hire a band.
Unamplified or amplified?

Oh, the hand wringing! Oh, the Audiophilia Nervosa!
tvad
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My wife and I have series seats at Walt Disney Concert Hall for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Disney Hall is considered to have excellent acoustics from the several articles I have read. Our seats are located in the center of the first balcony (Terrace Center). On at least two occasions this season, I could not hear the harpsichord during an orchestral passage.

If that was my stereo, I'd assume its resolution sucked.

So, considering Disney Hall has excellent acoustics, and considering some suggest live acoustic music is the benchmark by which we should judge our systems, does the failure to clearly hear some instruments in the live setting indicate that one must sit a specified number of rows from the stage, and in the center to have a proper reference of acoustic music?

This begins to border on the ridiculous, IMO.
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