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Don't worry about it, we're not usually in the realm of high fidelity anyway

Whether it's a 100 piece symphony orchestra, a pipe organ, or a 300 voice chorus, sound from the musicians themselves at a live performance comes from many individual directions while 90% or more of the sound comes from hundreds or even thousands of directions no one of which is predominant. This means that when the sound is 100 db at the listener's ears, the sound coming from the musicians is only 90 db, a tenth of it. Unable to reproduce that aspect of sound, all of it in a modern audio system comes from just two directions. If there is one word to characterize the sound audio systems produce when music is loud compared to the sound live musicians produce, it would be blaring. That may be "hi fi" sound but it's not high fidelity sound in my book.

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