Pieter, do you have one certain volume position that you use? I ask since my experience is that when the noise is removed the sound gets less shouty, which is perceived as less energetic.
But you can now turn up the volume instead, a lot, without it getting loud and fatiguing. Thanks to this you suddenly have better dynamics, since you can crank the volume more without it appearing to be loud. It basically starts sounds more like vinyl and not like digital music.
That is my view, and i feel that it is a paradox that is easy to miss if you focus on a certain “fixed” volume level.
