Use some of the discipline you mustered when getting your Masters and PhD and train your mind to enjoy the music and the sound. Music can sound truly beautiful and it can also just be beautiful, but you already know that.
Good luck.
Good old days
I remember when I was happy that everything I played on my stereo sounded basically the same, without a care for soundstagjng and the like. This occurs to me now as I sit in my car enjoying the hell out of everything played. All I’m thinking about is the music. Maybe it’s time for me to pack in my high end aspirations.