I'm a big fan of good studio recordings.
Aside from the better sonics, I don't have to be the chief "shoosher" in the audience. I hate when the audience makes noise, hums, taps their feet, their hands (especially if they have a ring on) against on the arms of their seat, cough a lot (STAY HOME!) or even breath too loudly. And let's not forgget the REALLY annoying person who wears perfume or cologne. YUCK! and there isn't anything you can do about that, they can't take it off, they just stink throughout the performance. Whenever that happens, I always remark loudly and repeatedly to Gail how much the person smells. Instead of doing s security check, they should give everyone a sniff and ban those people from the auditorium. A portion of the time, (especially older) people are deaf and don't realize others around them hear all their noise. I was recently at a concert where they were playing Dvorak's New World, and during the spritely moving parts, the guy two rows in front of me was thinking he was the freaking conductor and was tapping his hands against his armrest--and he had a big ring on his finger that made a hell of a lot of noise. During the intermission, I asked him if he could hear his ring banging on the chair and he said "no." I told him in no uncertain terms that EVERYONE ELSE COULD!
Sit down, shut up and don't move around in your chair.
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get this out of my system.
Gary,
Excellent and interesting post.
But you know, the guy could have replied :
" if you do not like the contact with living people, who make noise and smell, stay in your studio ! You are in the real life here".
What do you want ? That is life.
There has always been cough in concert halls. Indeed, in Northern US and Canada, in winter, almost everyone has a cough. Should we stop concerts during the winter season ?
That is annoying, I agree fully with you. But that is life.
You have to focus on music and forget the smell, the cough. Because you will always find EVERYWHERE people with an "invasive" attitude.
It is up to you only not to let those noises, odor and so on, disturb your inner harmony.
That is what Zen is about.
Accepting the world as it is. And concentrate about the only reason why you are here.
In this case, enjoying music.
It takes time and efforts. But it is worthy to try. I live much better since I changed my attitude towards the people around me doing "disturbing" things.
Classical Concerts are fabulous. And no music system on earth will ever give just 5% of this energy and beauty. Do not let uneducated people take an ounce of your pleasure of being there my Friend !
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) The problem is that people/reviewers keep inventing terms to add to the confusion that are meaningless or even worse just confuse the situation. The worse IMHO is organic. Oh how I hate that word. Describe it, don't just invent a term. 
