The waveform you are trying to reproduce, though, was mixed and mastered by a guy on studio monitors or similar, and in such a way that it would sound appropriate on the systems his audience is going to use.. or some version thereof.  He&#x27;s not pushing things to the limit of what his studio setup can produce, because that&#x27;s going to sound like crap anywhere else.<p>What you listen on to master isn&#x27;t necessarily what you&#x27;d listen on for fun.<p>If you were taking raw recordings of something with mics with really flat response curves, and wanted to play it back as accurately as possible, this would hold - but that&#x27;s not the case. It&#x27;s all about what sounds good to you.