I find adding listening time to my schedule is best. This works better in the winter as summer is when I'm busy with yard work and other chores. Not trying to advocate but small doses of THC will ALWAYS put me "in the mood". Haven't had the pleasure in 30 years but many states are making it legal. Can't wait to hear my reference rig they way I listened in my teens and twenties.
Do you have to be “in the mood?”
Do you have to be in the mood to enjoy the music on your stereo, or does your stereo put you in the mood? I find that if I put on my set just because I want to enjoy the sound coming out, I seldom have a very good outcome. That expensive big beautiful rig over there invites you to play it. But, playing it just for kicks doesn’t do it for me. I have to be really receptive to what I’m playing on it, otherwise I’m prone to all sorts of imagined defects.
Music reproduction is not an exact science. There must be a “suspension of disbelief” in the realness of the sound produced for me to enjoy it, much as we overlook the implausible incongruities in movie plots so that we can enjoy a film. I must be involved in the music itself to appreciate the sound and really enjoy my rig.
Music reproduction is not an exact science. There must be a “suspension of disbelief” in the realness of the sound produced for me to enjoy it, much as we overlook the implausible incongruities in movie plots so that we can enjoy a film. I must be involved in the music itself to appreciate the sound and really enjoy my rig.