Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System?

@ghdprentice Well stated. I also am drawn into the emotion of the performance, not the system.  Just as you articulated, with previous systems I did the opposite and became fatigued quickly.  The attributes of a musical system to me are timbre, tonal balance, PRAT, micro/macro dynamics, and the ability to reproduce harmonic decay.  I prefer an organic presentation with dense images. 

@12many No system will correct poor recording engineering.  I have found overly analytical systems will highlight poor engineering.  You indicate you are evaluating a new amplifier that is augmenting bass on recordings engineered with powerful bass to a degree you find unpleasant.  The increased bass performance of your new amp may be overloading your room rather than a specific fault of amp or a system mismatching issue. My recommendation, if you have not done this already, is first attempt to tweak speaker or room treatment positioning.  That may balance bass response. If it does not work you have a decision to make. When evaluating bass performance, I recommend you focus more on timbre and tone, micro/macro dynamic performance, ability to drive PRAT, and ability to reproduce secondary harmonics and decay, not on power per se.  If balancing works, determine bass performance using my recommendations to determine if your new amp is better.  Make the final decision based on which amp lets the music touch your soul so you stop listening to your system. 

Does every Track sound great on my system? The answer to that is no. Some recordings benefit from high-quality production and engineering while others suffer from a lack thereof. That’s a variable that is inherent  and my system won’t make a poorly engineered recording sound “great“ and I don’t think any system could possibly be different. It doesn’t mean that I can’t enjoy the music if the engineering is not masterful, but it won’t sound truly great at least to my ears. for example, I enjoy pretty much all of the music from Al Stewart. His music that was produced by Alan Parsons is, however, qualitatively different because Alan Parsons had a genius for production and engineering.
If that genius is not present, there’s not going to be any high end equipment, room, treatments, acoustics, or whatever that will cover for its absence. That doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the music but great is a relative term and it won’t be great Compared to music that has been masterfully produced and engineered

Recording quality is a huge variable that probably isn’t discussed enough and that’s probably because there’s not much we can do about it

My system with 2 REL subs rarely need adjustment, but I can easily turn the bass level up or down on the RELs (easily accessible using the infamous "chicken head" knobs) or use my Schiit Loki Max to EQ an out of balance recording (seriously, everybody should have one if these). Another option is to shut it all down, put my face in my hands, and start sobbing.

IF one listens to a variety of music, from different types of producers and companies:

Recording quality varies.

Mastering quality varies.

There are different purposes for different mixes.

There are so many variables.

How *could* they all sound good on one's system?

Great question! The more you go up in electronics, the more revealing your system becomes. Sometimes there are differences in SQ within songs on a side of a vinyl record but more frequently the differences in SQ occur on different sides of an album. 

Less expensive gear doesn't pick up these SQ differences. That's why rock, for example, is very hard to get right with vinyl on high end systems but generally sounds good on less expensive systems.

It takes a lot of work to get a high end rig to sound amazing both in gear symmetry and software. Just throwing expensive gear together and expecting great results is a recipe for SQ frustration and disaster. "Ignorance is bliss" applies to rigs that don't detect subtle differences of SQ information in the grooves and there's nothing wrong with that because it's all about enjoying the music...