This morning I threw on some Nine Inch Nails 
For a long long time I’ve loved the Broken EP from 1992. The song Wish is not meant to be a beautiful piece of music. It is aggressive, loud, and heavily layered with thick guitar tracks.
On all previous receivers it came off a little too hot and aggressive and lacked musicality. When layers get thick they often turn into mud. On the Stellar there is a new natural sense of warmth and musicality that I haven’t heard before. Not anything artificial sounding, but rather the Stellar is excelling at pulling apart thick textures of distorted guitars so that they sound full and real while still having a nice transparent sound. I tried more NIN, the recent Burning Bright is another one with a ridiculous amount of layers; same thing, these complex industrial rock recordings sound great.
Ok… so you guys don’t think I just listen to industrial rock noise… next I threw on Natalie Merchant - Carnival… wow. Smooth guitar tones that sound like a Les Paul and tube amp are in the room. Her voice doesn’t have any minute sense of harshness yet very realistic in the vocal presentation. No sibilance but very revealing…
Seether - One Cold Night - live album recorded well to my ears maintaining great dynamic range. Acoustic guitar not only has upper harmonic string vibrations but also sounds like I can hear the fundamentals vibrating as well and possibly the resonance of the acoustic guitar itself. Very cool! Cymbals here are so real, very nice body with natural attack and realistic decay I have yet to hear elsewhere!