When I was a whole lot younger, I'd do other things, like reading, while music was playing. I can't do that anymore. When I listen to music, I listen to music. When I read, I read. The twain shall not meet and my brain is the happier for it....
Listening
When you listen to music do you do other things, like read, exercise, work on a project, etc., or do you sit in the sweet spot and concentrate on the music playing?
Do you find you enjoy the music more when concentrating on it than you do when not? Or do you let the music wash over you as background sound?