Good to know I'm not hallucinating (reviews of live stuff in box set):
"Now comes Disc #3, the live stuff. I was really looking forward to a solid, well mixed live disc but it's really hit and miss. In great part, I believe, because of the venue size each track is recorded. It's very odd listening to an arena show where you can't hear the audience at all and the musicians are very dry sounding with little to no reverberation"
"For this being as Kirk Hammett put it "Metallica's Dark Side of the Moon" you would think the live recordings would've been better especially after tour lasted almost 3 full years. This is also when Metallica became complacent and super lazy. Playing a Justice Medley's night after night and not even playing the full Master of Puppets song. The only live show from this boxset that is worth listening to is the Tushino Airfield Moscow, the rest are terrible."
Yes, the only live worth listening to is the Moscow concert, but there is only a little bit of audience in this one. If you have no live Metallica, then get LIVE SH*T Binge & Purge, then get stuff from 30th anniv shows, Mexico City-2009, Six Feet Under Part II, Through The Never-2012, and then stuff from older box sets. Do not buy this for the LIVE music. However, I have no idea how the DVDs sound.