A well set equaliser (for your specific speakers/headphones) goes a long way towards reversing this problem. Or at least it feels like it to me.
I've started using eqMac2 [1] on my Macbook for equalising my headphones. The difference between non-eq sound and my profile is night and day. Without the equaliser it sounds like I'm listening to music through a swimming pool.
I have to say though, nothing beats music with proper dynamic range being pumped through a >$10,000 speaker system in a room that's been properly fitted for the acoustics. There's a new nightclub that's opened in my city, where the owner has spent a lot of time and money getting the sound system set up properly. He has an absolute banging Funktion One system [2], with properly designed room with all the correct dampening and stuff. The difference between that and a generic setup with no design is absolutely night and day. You can stand in the middle of the dance floor with the music absolutely cranking and still hold a conversation. As much as I do love techno, I really want to see them put some Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd through the system.
With proper sound systems like a Funktion One and high quality music, you don't just hear the music, you can feel the music. It's absolutely phenomenal.
As much as I love a room with a properly fitted and tuned Funktion One system playing techno at a level where I can feel the bass in every part of my body, that pretty much is the sweet spot for F1 rigs, so you might be disappointed with how they sound playing other types of music.
I haven't listened to enough psy-trance on F1 systems to really make a comment, but it's something I'll definitely think about next time I'm at a psy-trance thing with F1 speakers.
In my experience with smaller outdoor psy-trance parties they've tended to go with Opus rigs, but when I've been to the Ozora Festival in Hungary where they might have ten thousand people dancing in a valley, it's the sort of long-throw J-rigs the article talks about.
I've started using eqMac2 [1] on my Macbook for equalising my headphones. The difference between non-eq sound and my profile is night and day. Without the equaliser it sounds like I'm listening to music through a swimming pool.
I have to say though, nothing beats music with proper dynamic range being pumped through a >$10,000 speaker system in a room that's been properly fitted for the acoustics. There's a new nightclub that's opened in my city, where the owner has spent a lot of time and money getting the sound system set up properly. He has an absolute banging Funktion One system [2], with properly designed room with all the correct dampening and stuff. The difference between that and a generic setup with no design is absolutely night and day. You can stand in the middle of the dance floor with the music absolutely cranking and still hold a conversation. As much as I do love techno, I really want to see them put some Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd through the system.
With proper sound systems like a Funktion One and high quality music, you don't just hear the music, you can feel the music. It's absolutely phenomenal.
[1] https://github.com/nodeful/eqMac2
[2] https://www.funktion-one.com/