Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System?

Do we

1: Optimize to bring the very best out of the very best recordings, or

2: Optimize to bring the best out of the broadest range of recordings.

i quite literally do both all the time. Easily. 

For the most part most music sounds good on my system depending what amp and speaker combo I’m using. My B&W sub is fully adjustable from an app. I also have a schitt Loki max eq that has a remote. I can adjust the whole system on the fly which I rarely do. 

A few nights ago I put on the Sony SBM (red book) remaster of Born To Run and it sounded like nails on a chalkboard. Then I put on the MFSL (red book) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and it was somewhat better, but not super crazy better. Then I put on Sprinsteen’s Ghost Of Tom Joad and it was a whole lot better and then I put on MFSL (SACD) Cowboy Junkies/Whites Off Earth Now and all brightness and compression disappeared and the sound stage blossomed laterally, vertically and to the fore and aft. All tracks are not re-created equally on my system.

Did you try the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in SACD?

@toddalin  , are you referring to the Japanese single layer SACD?  I have that also, but I've only played it once.  For some reason I haven't been too impressed with the single layer imports, but it could be that I wasn't listening to it on a "good night."  I am not in the mood for Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on a regular basis, but next time I'll try the SACD and see if my feelings have changed about it.  I really enjoy Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding.