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How can a system be judged with highly processed, non acoustic music?

I basically know what an instrument or human voice sounds like. I understand that almost all recordings, analog or digital, go through some level of processing. I also know that there are many, many recordings which strive to present a natural, real sound. To me, I can best judge a system playing lightly or non processed acoustic music.
This is also my preference for listening in general. And for me, it is vinyl.
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On the first Stereophile Test CD they have a track where JG Holt reads from a Stereophile  and is recorded in mono by about 15 different microphones including Shures, AKGs, Neumans, Telefunkens, etc.  It's not hard to tell when the microphone changes.

So I would say that what you are doing is making your system sound most natural to you.  It may not sound most natural to someone else who uses different minimalist acoustic recordings to determine natural.
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