I doubt an audiophile can ever get entirely away from the analytical perspective of listening. Last nights listening session veered wildly in both genre and recording qualities, I can never get over how widely variable recording quality can be, for instance I was listening to some big band music from the likes of early Count Basie, mono recordings with relatively small sound stage and lacking transparency/resolution, most would call these rather poor recordings (not to say some 40's, early 50's recordings can be quite amazing), and then I went into some experimental electronica and contemporary recordings of northern European primitive music, sound quality amazing, huge sound stages, virtually no compression, just so alive!
And so the above listening session par for the course in that I can't help but hear so much recording quality variability, my mind can't help but process this. But then I move on from this moment of initial analysis nearly instantaneously into the pure enjoyment of music mode. Between having built a system that is both highly transparent/resolving yet forgiving enough so the blemishes don't grate and training my mind to free itself from judgment and comparison I find myself enjoying far more variability in both recording quality and music genres. Having a quality streaming setup has completely changed my perceptions and enjoyment of both recording quality and music, I often let music play randomly from my huge library, seems crazy but I like everything the robot plays, I'm always highly involved in the music. hard to end listening sessions.