Bass at your ears? (Bass imaging)

There are more songs on that album with interesting sound effects. Actually modern music often gives "HiFi" speakers lots of problems. It's not always "crap recordings" as we tend to say when it doesn't sound so good.

Can one surmise that $53,000 speakers could be at least partly responsible?

The last two posts are part of my point that I made. Most systems, frankly, are not that great. We think our rig and most we have heard are wonderful, but in truth they often lack significantly. Low end lack of resolution is common. When you hear a rig/speakers that can do extreme resolution in LF it is striking. It’s also very obvious to the ear.

Regarding many genres which are ridiculed and said to be not good sounding, again, the majority of audio systems even of audiophiles are woefully inadequate to the task. Anyone with smaller than 10" woofers is basically not on the playing field. It's not only a matter of woofer size, but of amps, cabling, etc. I estimate that 80% plus of systems in the home can't do such music well, or at least what I would call doing it well. Some of these people try such music and because it doesn't sound good/clean they mock the music, all the while having systems that can’t even reproduce it well. Part of the weirdness of audiophilia.

I don’t even care for many of these genres of music, but I will use them occasionally to calibrate/test systems. If the system can do such music well, then typically it will do all music well/better. YMMV

Hey Doug, I was thinking it was getting to be time for your routine spanking for us not spending enough money on gear.

@badger_rich ya i think that might be a small part of it i think lol