... POORLY RECORDED SONGS THAT ...

I hate to beat a dead horse here, but most CDs in the last few years are engineered with DR range compression that makes them hard to listen to and impossible to correct. No system can significantly enhance what doesn't exist in the recording.

Both of Alabama Shakes albums come to mind. Great stuff. Great writing. Great performing. Bad engineering. And there is no excuse for it.

"Can't Find My Way Back Home" from the Blind Faith album. The best vinyl copy I have, a first UK Polydor, is an improvement over the original US pressing, but the cymbals still sound like trash can lids. The song and performance still shine through despite that. (It's not an ear bleeder, just an awful recording). 

I just keep the poorly recorded stuff in my car.
With road and wind noise, and other distractions, 
(singing, too?) I am not expecting an audiophile
experience anyway.  The good recordings never
make it to the car...

Could segregating your collection by recording quality
be the answer?

@sgordon1 , the narrow DR stuff does sound okay in the car and probably for the reasons you mention.

Its the stuff, like Alabama Shakes' Sound and Color, that would lend itself to hi-fi listening but is poorly engineered that drives me crazy. I don't really want to listen to that in the car or at home.

@whart, I don’t own the Blind Faith album, and haven’t heard it in many years. Are the really bad sounding cymbals on only the one song? I ask because Ginger Baker’s cymbals, starting on the Graham Bond Organization albums, and continuing in Cream, always sounded bad. He doesn’t have very good taste in cymbals, and/or doesn’t know how to pick them out. The Zildjian cymbals he plays are infamous for being extremely variable in sound quality amongst examples of the same model; they need to be hand-picked. Ginger’s Zildjians are amongst the worst I have ever heard, both on recordings and live (I saw Cream twice, at the original Fillmore and Winterland).