Quest to achieve live sound

"Hire a band" - Ncarv, for the cost of some audio gear one can hire symphony orchestra many times.

Sitting at a live event not only amplifies the sound but also it's size. If it's philharmonic, the band shell magnifies the entire presence by design. P.A. sound is not the goal in achieving what I think we're after. To achieve what Apachef1 suggests is not to achieve "live" sound but reality. In setting up my system, this is always what my goal has been, to make it sound "real". And that "must" mean to sound "unpre-amplified" but amplified for the first time by my system. This requires extremely accurate speakers and especially a very fast amp. and probably vinyl.

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.