What songs/albums/artists actually sound worse when played through audiophile systems?

Perhaps a poor choice of words to say good speakers/system make bad recordings sound worse. Of course they don’t but when your good recordings start sounding better and your bad ones pale in comparison the difference is enough to make me get rid of bad ones. Yes the system as a whole has a lot to do with it but the OP made mention of the quality problem AFTER he added the Forte 3 so I assume the speaker is what he was directing his comment too.

  As to a list of bad recordings you ask about OP none come to mind but I do get rid of many over time. The same album can be different and what you download or get from a friend may have been tinkered with so a list is not much use when your source can vary so much.  Joe Satriani for one seems to generally be OK and Telmark recordings generally are good.

That's the problem with good speakers. They make bad sound even worse and great sound as good as it was meant to be. It will faithfully play back what you feed it. Welcome to the world of discovering how many of your favorites were done poorly. Over the years I have had to weed out many bad recordings that used to be my favorites.

  Go learn about Audacity and sometimes this program can salvage bad engineering. If you do start using it keep a file of your original so you can go back to it if you have to.