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Should a good system sound bad with bad recording?

A friend of mine came home with a few CDs burnt out of "official" bootleg recordings of Pearl Jam NorAm tour...the sound was so crappy that he looked at me a bit embarrassed, thinking "very loud" that my system was really not great despite the money I spent. I checked the site he downloaded from...full concerts are about 200 MB on average. I guess I am dealing with a case of ultra-compressed files. Should I be proud that the sound was really crappy on my set up?!!!!
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audiofeil
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Maybe this is a trick question and I'm not getting it but shouldn't a "bad" recording sound bad on the best of systems and worse on lesser equipment?

'Splain it to me Lucy.
audiofeil
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>>A bad recording can sound good through a well balanced hi-fi system<<

Sorry but I really don't buy into that. A bad recording sounds bad. It sounds bad on a good system and it sounds bad on a bad system. However, it sounds less bad on a good system than it does on a bad system.

My bad.
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