Your system quality vs. recording quality

Profoundly sad that SQ from the Beatles is not as good as it deserves. So much goodness, and remastering didnt achieve much. And yet there are albums from the past that do indeed sound quite good. Same thing can be said for Grateful Dead album SQ, although they are ok. Linda Ronstadt albums are quite good. 

Sadly, So many great albums from the 70s used to sound a lot better when the age of audiophile technological advancement and awareness had not fully arrived and was not so widespread. We may need our older systems for recordings from this past age that treated the recordings a lot better; these classic albums have no place in modern era systems.

+1 Mapman. And there is are many releases that suffer from poor recording and/or production. Some of my favorites are those recorded 'live' in the studio. 

There's been tracks i've played at the shop that had the salesman running for the volume knob, but at home the very same recording sounds great. Sometimes putting an acoustic panel at the first reflection point will save an old brittle recording, sometimes they just suck, but then why do they sound so freakin' good in my truck?

Another thing is if you’re system is in the zone and you actually like music most recordings will draw you in not chase you away.

If not then two possibilities are something needs to change and/or maybe you don’t like music as much as you think you do.

1+ @mapman  A good system makes everything sound better. I listen to some very old Louis Armstrong stuff. By modern standards it is pretty poor but just listen to him play that horn. It is like the tarnish on an old photograph. It belongs there. I also think you have to give the artist some leeway. Perhaps they want you to hear it a certain way. Listen to a Fiona Apple disc.