For a while I felt my setup was a little bright. Now I've decided it's just quite detailed and it took me a while to adjust to it. This is a good example of why taking time to make one's mind up makes sense to me.

I'd add it sounds poor when playing poor recordings. Surely that suggests it's just telling it pretty much as it is.  IMO if a system always sounds good it must be adding a fair chunk of it's own character which sounds like a bad thing to me.