During all the years as music/hifi lover and seller my findings were and still are, that almost uniformly all recordings, that made and still make my ears bleed, are enormously dynamically compressed. The better the DAC/system, the more obvious, the less joy. The equipment is only the “messenger”. Everybody here, who is a little bit spoiled about “Sunlight” at the moment, should maybe either take a look into this database https://dr.loudness-war.info/, or install the “TT DR offline meter”. I’m still shocked, how MUCH digital stuff (highres and SACDs as well) is massacred like this… Even from artists/labels You would never imagine. To know that, helps to get a new view. And the big paradox is, that the vinyl is mostly left unharmed…
P.S.: My post was moved from “Sunlight sound impressions”. I postet there, because I wanted to remember, that the “brightness” some listeners feel now, could come from the “honesty” and transparency of its sound…