I don't know, I just realised again that my brain is wired in a much more simplistic way than the august members here.
When I am experiencing live music, I can see I am in a space, over there are the musicians, there is this one, there is that one. Invariably, around me are other people. They are talking, burping and maybe even farting. There are smells of other people, the venue etc.
When I am alone in my room, listening to recorded music, I have none of that. I need those clues that my eyes and other senses cannot provide. Before I can relax to any source of music I need to know exactly where it is coming from in a space that needs to be described to me. I, therefore, need the equipment and the recording to give me the information I cannot see or feel even if, in absolute terms, this information may be considered over descriptive or localised. To me, for those reasons, comparing live to recorded music in any aspect outside of tonal balance is an apples to oranges, bicycle to BMW absurdity.
To argue that one can close your eyes when listening live or to reproduction to even the differences is silly as you would already have seen the venue and the performers before closing your eyes. Once seen, nothing can be un-seen.