Let me play the devils advocate...
Are some actually suggesting that you dumb down a system so it can play bad recordings passably...disguise them by changing the sound through added distortion or fundamental changes in tonality or timbre?
The tail wagging the dog!
A system not based on accurate sound reproduction but one that sugar coats and candy wraps bad recordings. In essence more recordings will sound alike. Differences between recordings will all suffer from sugar coating; far less evident differences from track to track, recording to recording; blemishes smoothed away like the artist's air-brush in playboy. A dream world of syrupy pleasant sound...but totally out of touch with reality.
Surely this is mediocrity?
Are some actually suggesting that you dumb down a system so it can play bad recordings passably...disguise them by changing the sound through added distortion or fundamental changes in tonality or timbre?
The tail wagging the dog!
A system not based on accurate sound reproduction but one that sugar coats and candy wraps bad recordings. In essence more recordings will sound alike. Differences between recordings will all suffer from sugar coating; far less evident differences from track to track, recording to recording; blemishes smoothed away like the artist's air-brush in playboy. A dream world of syrupy pleasant sound...but totally out of touch with reality.
Surely this is mediocrity?