To my way of thinking, it helps to consider the event, the recording, and the reproduction process as three entirely separate things without much overlap between them. The venue acoustics and everything which happens with regard to producing and hearing sound in that space is one thing, recording it and manipulating that recording is another, and reproduction yet another.
Each of those is a major set of variables that can to varying degrees be controlled for within that segment of the chain but they all interact with each other and color our perceptions.
Event - type of music, nature of the reinforcement, nature of the space, volume, etc.
Recording - mics, recorder, pattern, placement, processing and editing
Reproduction - playback systems and variables, nature of the space (if any since headphones eliminate the playback room factors)
If those are apples, oranges and grapes there's often a lot of disagreement where one person is talking apples and another oranges while the third is playing it back in mp3 through grape sized earbuds...