Heavy metal artists put a lot of time and energy into achieving just the right amount of painful distortion. It may seem the way to play it back is with a system that adds even more painful distortion. This however is not being true to artistic intent. We must at all times be mindful of the artists creativity and aesthetic intent. Probably much of the reason audiophiles look down on heavy metal is they simply have not developed the transparency and precision of their systems to the level this most sophisticated of all music genres demands.
Does Heavy Metal music benefit from a high end audio system?
Not to dig at the genre although I’m not a fan, does Heavy Metal music benefit from an higher resolution systems? I’m not talking about comparing to a cheap box store system, rather, would one benefit moving from an audiophile quality $5-10k to a $100k+system?