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There can be great beauty (and fun) within the ugly, and a great system can bring it out no matter the recording. Blues field recordings, Sam Cooke at the Harlem Square, Dylan '66, old NBC Orchestra performances with Arturo Toscanini at the helm, some sound good, some bad, but a system that can plumb the depths and pull out the emotion from the munged details is where it's at for me.