Mood

One thing that I’ve noticed is that if something sounds bad it can put me in a bad mood so that I don’t enjoy the following things I play.

@zazouswing :

“a poorly recorded first song left a bad taste for all that followed”
Exactly what happens to me a lot.

@cdc “Did you play the same music the next morning?”

Not at first but soon thereafter.

In general, I really like the way my speakers sound the way they are.  My friend who has the same speakers listens near field.  They don’t sound nearly as  good.  It’s just those times when I hear a bad recording and it sets me off into critical mode that I have problems. I listen to orchestral music mostly.

+2 @baylinor 

A trap that we fall into is thinking a bad sounding track is the fault of our system.

Accept the fact that there are bad sounding sources and that not all sources are created equal.