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You've focused on the exact issue - the type of music

and more specifically, its dynamics. While I enjoy all the types of music you mentioned, most of said is relatively undemanding. Here, for example, is a Sound Forge representation of a nice cut from a Troika album. Some peaks, but overall not a whole lot of change.

On the other hand, classical can be very different. Some of the most demanding examples were written by a little Russian guy named Igor.

One of the things I like about Stravinsky's music is that he knew how to use explosive dynamics to convey the music's emotion - and startle the hell out of you / raise the hairs on your arms in the process. Here is the complete twenty minute sample of the Introduction to the Firebird

A wee bit different, wouldn't you say? Now, here's an excerpt of that middle section where you can really see what knock's you out of your chair. You get lulled with about ten seconds of a quiet passage and then are slammed in the face with a sub-second peak! Ten seconds later, you get hit again. Four seconds later, again. This is why I'd really like to have more power than seven hundred watts.

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