Three things I’ve learned about listening.

1. If you listen for sonic problems you’ll find them.

    Of course. As you lean so you discover.  Part of the process.

2. Since it is a hobby, you feel you have to play with it.

     That is almost the definition of the hobby and it’s pleasure

3. If it sounds really good, leave it alone!

      What would be the fun it that?  We are all here for different reasons. Some

      have unlimited funds to spend on finding perfection.  The rest find ways to          

     improve within limited budgets. All successes create satisfaction.

"All successes create satisfaction."

But the greatest satisfactions comes from "rolling your own" rather than paying for someone else to "roll it for you."  

@rvpiano Great post, truly inspired. Like a lot of people (I expect), I do my most critical listening AFTER I buy a new component. Most of the time, I congratulate myself on having a system that sounds so good— to me. Other times, it is just in the background. I also listen more when I retreat to my ‘listening room’ rather than have music playing while I scroll on my phone, read the newspaper, or check my messages. The phone doesn’t come out in ‘the listening room’.

@oldrooney 

Thank you.

Autobias….

fun thread RV

Staying up late listening to Rhiannon Giddens…