[William Sommerwerck]

With respect to classical music, live recordings often sound better
because the recording engineer is less able to **** with the sound.

You wouldn't call measure by measure and note by note editing
****ing with the sound?

Correcting bad notes doesn't change the "sound" of the recording -- it
changes the performance.

The OP did not clarify what he meant by "sounding better". To me, that means
the /sound/ -- not the performance. The OP should have said "more exciting"
or "greater involvement", or something like that.