Title pretty much says it all. For me I’m a music fan first and an audiophile second. Sometimes I’m in a car without a great system or using an inexpensive Bluetooth speaker and I still want to enjoy music. I often listen to very different music.
When it comes to newer albums I have been enjoying Sandy Denny’s home recordings and the new collection of Sylvester piano demos. I like everything from abba to 80s and 90s dance music. This is a bit of an oddball answer, but I also love listening to MFSL audiophile masters to stretch the legs of a mediocre system. It’s kind of amazing listening to the MFSL version of the nirvana or pixies albums in my base Honda fit’s stereo or Tapestry by Carole King if I have boomers in the car.
I’m curious what everyone else listens to on cheap consumer systems.
Do we? Because I listen to music that I enjoy on my system. I don’t care about if it’s been recorded to the “highest standard” for these audiophiles. If a system can’t sound great with Lamb of God, then it’s definitely overpriced for what it is. A good system should sound great with every genre, not specific genres and instruments and it can only sound good with the highest quality recording. I don’t let a system dictate what I listen to.