The thing is that the higher quality the record is the more extreme good or bad it sounds, I think also the pitch gets higher, because low frequencies don’t sound good to the hearer. It’s a problem about quality not tone, because the quality automaticly changes the tone. Sound is very tricky the more you invest in it the weirder it gets. It is also very subjective.
I know how a Porsche sounds becaue I heard 1000s of 911’s, but not how a Mustang sounds. I have no idea how a muscle car sounds, because I am just a regular person that lives in Germany.
But that is what these persons are for.