In my experience, highly resolving gear is made to make top-notch recordings and top-notch masterings shine.
The enormous amount of great music that’s been recorded over the last century devoid of those particular qualities? It may (I emphasize the may here…it is certainly not a guarantee), it may sound worse on such a system.
Now you’ve got a compromise…high-fidelity media sounds awesome, but less high-end media is now worse.
There may be a good middle-ground where those Public Enemy and Metallica recordings sound kick-ass and those Rudy Van Gelder recordings/masterings and those Deutsche Grammophon LPs sound great too with minimized compromise either way.
Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System?
How do you know if it is the recording or your system?
By way of example with a focus on bass, for some songs I like the amount of bass, then another song I feel like it needs more bass to hit harder, and then another song I feel like there is too much bass and it is boomy. Does that ever happen to you? I feel like I am getting the treble sorted out, but going back and forth on the bass.
Can anyone listen to the first 20 second of the song Temptation by Diana Krall from the Girl In The Other Room album and let me know if there is a bass component that is a bit much? The vocals sound good so no issue there.
Thanks.