.. in praise of live classical music

[french frank]

Ah, but that is not what this Greenwood person is saying. He is actually saying, throughout this piece, ‘Live music Good. Recording (when it’s classical music) baaaaad’. Does he not? Sorry to repeat the quote:

And yet, applied to acoustic classical music, all bets are off. I don't trust microphones or speakers for that, whether it's recorded or played live. They approximate and inflate rather than distil and concentrate

And I'm more 'forgiving' because he said: 'I don't trust ...' so it's left to people to decide whether they trust Jonny Greenwood or not. And, with respect, he does not say that 'recording is bad' but 'recording is not as good' (which one is still entitled to disagree with: it's only an opinion personal to him with - as Nevalti suggests - probably impaired hearing).

But I wonder what the 'average listener' feels? For me, I go to live music for the experience, the immediacy of the physical presence of the performers; I listen to records for the convenience and the much wider range of music available. Sound quality doesn't actually come into it (heresy!) because my audio eqipment is cheap and nasty.