I did not attempt to define Metal. I only tried to point out that it is often heavily compressed, as is pop music, see for example:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/17/metallica.guit...
I certainly find the idea of playing this stuff on a 10K Hifi amusing, which was perhaps your original point?
EDIT:
You can check your favourite albums, by using this resource: https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/1/dr/asc?artist=Epic...
Compare with e.g. some classical music recordings: https://dr.loudness-war.info/?artist=Berliner%20Philharmonik...
I did not attempt to define Metal. I only tried to point out that it is often heavily compressed, as is pop music, see for example:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/17/metallica.guit...
I certainly find the idea of playing this stuff on a 10K Hifi amusing, which was perhaps your original point?
EDIT:
You can check your favourite albums, by using this resource: https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/1/dr/asc?artist=Epic...
Compare with e.g. some classical music recordings: https://dr.loudness-war.info/?artist=Berliner%20Philharmonik...