Most pleasing sound vs most hifi sound


Hi folks, I came to the conclusion that in fact I love the sound that is emanating from car audio. While driving I'm enjoying a live broadcast of an opera through the car audio and sometimes I think it is even better than the home audio system. I'm an audiophile who ownes a serious rig but everytime I'm listening to a system or attending some hi end demo the most pleasing sound to my ears is the one that is reminiscent of the car audio sound, of course with the usual high end characteristics as palpability, resolution, midrange liquidity, impact/slam, soundstage and treble smoothness. Does this sound ridiculous? Am I starting to have some hearing impairment?

Chris
dazzdax

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my tivoli bedroom radio/sub system attenuates treble freqencies in a smooth roll-off which seems to benefit the music coming over most stations.
i can even listen to classical music as long as it's not a large scale piece of music with everyone joining in at once.
jazz piano trios, acoustic bass, and especially vibraphones are very well reproduced. how a three inch speaker (with an admittedly huge magnet) and a 5 inch subwoofer can sound so realistic and textured is a total mystery. i still wonder what would happen if i knew how to modify this system with better interconnects and upgrade some of the internal parts. the power supply comes as a plug-in module, so it is isolated from the main chassis. i really think it has some potential, but for now it already sounds so smooth and unfatiguing i can listen to it for hours.