So I don’t have a super high-end system by any means. I have JBL L36 speakers. They sound awesome. There is some music that sounds absolutely incredible on them. The Beatles – Abbey Road. Oscar Peterson - We Get Requests, Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk, Lorde - The Louvre…
There is some of my favourite music however, that sounds completely non-impactful and wimpy on the speakers as well. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again, and in fact most of their catalogue. Bowie - Berlin trilogy sounds weak but it slams in my car…
I would really love to know if someone has a great system and Depeche Mode/Bowie sound fantastic on it.
Absolutely! It was an awakening, many years ago, to find out what great reproduction was. Quickly following that was the realization about how the bulk of rock music is not recorded and produced to sound like the band is in front of you. Instead, the goal is to sell the most records. The two are not much the same, and it has led to some great music being somewhat diminished by shitty recording and production techniques. Also, not helping is that fact that surely almost all rock musicians have impaired hearing.