Why are so many caught up in this insecure narrative that if you critically listen to music your not enjoying it. Do these people "critically" hear themselves lmao. Ok to demonstrate the ironic doofury it takes of such claims, the following must be true of these music purists. They still own a black and white TV, because obviously you wouldn't want to let an awesome modern picture distract you from enjoying your movie, or wait, they still use a flip phone because I mean who wants to hear the person on the other line with all the noise canceling technology to take away from the conversation 🤣, or how about those photos that captures an entire landscape as if you were a professional photographer, I mean how distracting from the enjoyment of experiencing a blurry photo. Why people bother to make this an issue reminds me of a bunch of grandma's in a knitting convention complaining about kids these days. Seriously everyone accepts and oodles over technology in every other field but someone made half the people so insecure about the word audiophile and what that must say about them, almost as if they are afraid it would be followed by "hipster". Anyways hope this helps put things in perspective for the self inflicted victim crowd.
What exactly is critical listening? Who does it?
I'm supposed to listen to every single instrument within a mixture of instruments. And somehow evaluate every aspect of what I'm listening to and somehow all this is critical listening.
This is supposed to bring enjoyment?
I'm just listening for the Quality of what I'm listening to with all the instruments playing and how good they sound hopefully.
And I'm tired of answering that I'm not a robot all the time. That's being critical.