Do you trust your system?

@steakster - As somebody who has worked in the record business for a number of years, one thing I can tell you is that with very few exceptions, the last people who care about how anything sounds are record label executives!

That being said, there are a lot of recordings, vinyl and digital, that sound OK on the music systems or earbuds that most people listen to music on; they are not making these records to sound great on audiophile gear; they're making them to sound good on most any generic music gear, and if it also sounds good on top quality gear, that's just a bonus... . 

Very well said, @dain ! 

@steakster - A-ha! Clive indeed! First I was gonna say 'none of them' or something like that, but I changed it to 'with a very few exceptions' - also people like the late Ahmet Ertugan. A friend of mine used to be president of Capital Records for a few years (I first met him when he was an order taker for a record company), and he was also somebody who really cared about music; he'd even send out CD's of music that wasn't even on his label to people because he thought they should hear them.