not "be in the mood" so much as have the time to devote to at least a couple of hours. I can listen casually through the car or a home Deep Blue 2 bluetooth speaker. Like Elizabeth, I listen many hours a day, just not all of my listening on my primary rig.
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.