I have a slightly different take. First, the best enhancement to SQ is a bong hit of some good hybrid. Never fails! But at this stage, having heard my classic rock a million times, I find myself listening to a lot of bootlegs, especially Led Zeppelin, my favorite rock group. The boots vary in quality from soundboard, near commercial quality, to not so good audience tapes from the '70's. I find that my current system makes everything sound better, i.e., well-recorded music sounds fantastic and poorly recorded music still sounds good although the difference in SQ is obvious. So I think that some systems are so resolving that unless something is well-recorded, it sounds like crap. I prefer a system that is smoother . . . not that detail is lost, but sounds smoother. My ARC/Pass combo with Wilson Sabrina X speakers, an MSB DAC and a loom of Shunyata Sigma cables and Shunyata Everest, hit that sweet spot!
