Another drummer here. Never forgot the time I heard the quote, "Cymbals are a drummer's voice."
Cymbals were always one of the hardest parts to get 'right' on a kit - quite often even the same cymbals in a store would sound ever-so-slightly-different to each other. Often not all from the same maker would sound right together and quite a bit of mix-and-match was needed to produce great results. You have to get past feeling like a twat in the shop sat there playing 8 different cymbals and swapping things in and out.
Just dug out my old cymbal case, I evidently settled on the following back in the day:
Zildjian 13" A Custom hi-hats
Sabian 10" Hand Hammered splash
Sabian 16" AAX crash
Sabian 16" Medium Hand Hammered crash
Zildjian 18" Custom Dark K crash
Sabian 20" Classic Hand Hammered ride
I seem to recall that the cymbals cost a good 50% more than the rest of the kit (Yamaha Stage Custom Fusion). Been a good 15 years since I've played; I miss it dearly and when I'm able to move to somewhere bigger I'll have a set of Roland V-Drums.
It's a timely thread, as I've recently swapped to a new DAC and a pair of Kef Ref 3.2s driven by my XTZ Class A100 D3. The Kefs have noticeably better treble and mid-range and listening to Senri Kawaguchi's 'A La Mode' the other night there was astonishing attack and vibrancy in the cymbals particularly:
Emmylou Harris' 'Where Will I Be' has some wonderful drums throughout with a particularly delightfully-crisp crash around the 1:00 mark:
Also have a little riffle through Drumeo's videos on YT; unsurprisingly they tend to be mic'd and EQ'd pretty well, even with YT's audio mangling...
https://www.youtube.com/c/freedrumlessons/videos
As to whether my setup does cymbals justice? It's actually a hard one to say as the reality is that, up close anyway, cymbals aren't actually a very pleasant sound when you're sat a foot away from them - being honest if they were absolutely 'true-to-life' on every recording I think music would soon become fatiguing. Cymbals need to be down in the mix enough to be musical accents. Listening to them through my setup is, though, highly enjoyable.
In fact in that regard cymbals are rather like cocoa powder; great in small quantities and mixed with other stuff, however you wouldn't want to have spoonful after spoonful of it raw.