This happens in my car all the time, it has a very nice Bose sond system with TONs of toe tappin bass, and when I get to my hifi SOME things just don't sound as pleasing. But what are you going to do? I try to produce music myself and I use my Hifi system as monitors and I get the excact sound I want, listen to it on a few different systems and adjust my recordings. I wish producers would put as much care into recording as they could, I don't have anything close to a recording studio(except my stereo ;) ) and I can master tracks that sound good on regular systems and in cars, but on my hifi system the music sounds...awsome.
This kills me...
So, I get all into with this new singer / songwriter fellow and download a couple of mp3's from his website and spend a couple of weeks playing them entirely too much at work every day on the old office computer. Obsession ensues. Finally, I manage to order a copy of the CD from him (one of those small-time, not-in-stores deals), get it home to the trusty hi-fi, and go straight to the favorite track. Lo and behold, they had gone and snuck in a whole drum section and a relatively complex baseline that the mp3 and office speakers just plain weren’t up for. It was fine, sure, maybe even better, but not the track I had fallen for (so I became obsessed with a couple I didn’t have at work, no problem). How do you like that, though, betrayed by the resolution and fidelity of my own system. Sure, it was a prime example of the "I've never heard that before" syndrome that we all enjoy so, but I was actually disappointed. Just goes to show, the magic (when and if magic) is all about the software, not the hardware. Sobering, really. Am I alone on this one?