Having been an audiophile earlier in my life, until other priorities and lower income but a stop to it.

I got to the point where I discovered you cannot built the ultimate stereo that is suitable for "all generes".

On a typical audiophile setup extremely well recorded music is an enormous joy. The soundscape is amazing, the small details you can hear.

Sadly, there are fewer and fewer genuinely great recordings seen from that perspective.

Listening to metal, industrial or rap (with some exceptions), was painful. You could not get the extra resolution because there was nothing to get.

The frequency range was not there. The drums adjusted for maximum bass, the guitars had little dynamic ranger, and the sometimes shouted lyrics where not a joy either.

But.. If you had a stereo that was optimized for listening to this kind of music, which fit the soundscape the record expected, is sounds much better than "high end audiophile stereo".

You really need more than one stereo so you can play the record at its best.