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Interesting - what are you using for an amp? I have not found that to be my observation of them. I do find them very resolving and certainly revealing of detail, but I haven't particularly found them to be as unforgiving as you seem to find them with poorly recorded music. I have not liked that kind of quality in components that I'd describe as ruthlessly revealing. The Benchmark DAC 1 is a good example - I find that DAC virtually unlistenable, while many others love it. It is unforgiving on badly recorded music, to be sure, and I also find it to be strident in the upper end. The end result is what I would term hyper-detailed presentation that really grates on me. That is not how I perceive the LCD-2's - they have a greater ease and naturalness to their presentation and the shelving down of the highs really does help with a potentially fatiguing element for me personally, though sometimes I do miss a certain sparkle to the highs with some familiar recordings.
That's why (in my mind) something the Benchmark might make a good match for the LCD-2's. I like to combine components with offsetting strengths together, as an example a tube DAC with a solid state amp (or vice versa).