Anyone else prefer listening to their system more than a concert?

@ezwind - always seemed to me that the bands who put the most effort and money into getting the very best sound possible were the Grateful Dead - right from the beginning; Owsley did a lot more than make great acid - and Pink Floyd (and solo offshoots). 

The last live concert I enjoyed was Mattawa Voyager Days, in Ontario. It was around 8 years ago, I am 68 now.  We had the wrist bands for entrance to the music area, and realized it Noisy, Crowded, Dusty and Difficult to see the band.  This event runs for 2 nights and then on Sunday. 
We returned on Saturday with out kayaks, and headlights that you can use when cross country skiing at night, or hiking. We paddled out into the Ottawa River, and just drifted in the currents and eddies, keeping the music far enough away to enjoy the volume level, the lack of crowds, no dust and found out that you could get a nice reverb effect from the hills on the Quebec side of the river.  Awesome.
Later, around 11 pm, a fireworks display was scheduled, so, we paddle closer to shore, and watched the fireworks land in the river, in the area we had just left. It is really cool to watch the fireworks falling into the water, when at water level, and getting the reflection and the fireworks.
Since then, most concerts are over priced, noisy, bad acoustics, crowded, etc. etc.. I could buy every CD ever made by most bands, and still have a lot of change left over.  
Sue Foley, playing at a small bar in Lavigne Tavern, Lavigne, was awesome. Seating for around 100 people... good time.

Sue Foley is highly underrated. 

Nope.

I'm a music lover, not an audiophile (a bit of a gearhead, maybe...).  I've been to thousands of concerts, music of all kinds.  I am spending more time in concert halls and less in bars as I grow older, though.  I like being part of a crowd that is there for the music and the musicians.  No sound system can replicate that feeling.

I've been to hundreds of of live music events. I realize that this is blasphemy to many in our hobby but my system sounds better than any concert I've ever been to - including classical music. I don't listen to live music for the sound quality because usually, it sucks.

Your interesting post strikes a nerve for me because I've always felt that my objective was not to recreate the sound of live music. In fact, that's laughable. My focus has been on getting the best sound that I can get out of good quality recordings.

Part of my frame of reference is that I had a recording studio for about a decade in the  90's where I recorded local bands ranging from female singer/songwriter to doom metal. I loved going to the shows of the artistst I recorded but I can assure you that my recordings of them had far better sound quality. The recordings also had an added benefit - I could listen without earplugs!

That doesn't mean that I didn't like seeing live music. I love the experience of watching and listening to good musicians play in real time. But listening to my stereo is a different, and equally satisfying, experience.