More enjoyment

@gkelly , same here eg. Moody Blues and Foghat. My music selection is definitely influenced by SQ over material. But I’ve discovered a lot of new music thanks to streaming. I have a premium factory stereo in my vehicle and it’s significantly more forgiving than my home stereo so I tend to play my 60’s rock while driving. Richard always good to see you post ! Regards , Mike B. 

When my system/room was not optimized yet i was completely frustrated even when listening my Bach or my liked jazz...

Now i focus only on my music....

A system cannot work better than his own peak potential but most of the times it is enough to reach "minimal acoustical satisfaction threshold " M.A.ST. a level many people dont reach at any cost....

When music begin to impose itself and sound become the messenger conveying it we are there ...

I type these words listening Vivaldi sonatas OP 2 with Kovacs and Sebastyen... I listen to it since the first year of CD...

i tried other versions nothing work, even if the sound recorded of my beloved version is a bit "acid" i hear it thousand times, because of the interpreters pulse which is unique..

The pulse is a rythmic musical element that cannot be written in notation nor measured...it can only be felt....Furtwangler interpretation of Schuman no 4 or  Chet baker  Tokyo concert or Miles Davis "kind of blue" convey a perfect pulse...

When all musician plays in the same wave and when one spoke . the pulse is there  like a voice wave vibration...

sometimes I will look for nice musical performances on youtube... those are not in any way high fidelity sonics, and you actually listen to the music for its own sake, sound quality is barely passable but not the point, and not to obsess over... it is a good break from doing the hifi gear thing ad nauseum sometimes

Great to hear from you.glad you found your happy place. I love the golden ear and have all generations way back to the definitive technology sc 7000, eand up to your current model.enjoy the music.

@gkelly:

I still like a lot of the music of my youth, rock & punk mostly but confess I rarely listen to it. Everything now is jazz and blues. 

As a youth I hated jazz and thought rock way outshined the slower tempo of blues. It took awhile to realize a lot of those rock musicians "borrowed" so much of the music from the classic blues men.