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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.

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tshark
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I see a couple of situations where I use critical listening - extensively when purchasing new components and again during set up in my home listening area. 

For me the most important thing is to have a set of 6 or so musical tracks that I know very well, and that represent the different parts of the audio spectrum. Bring with or have AD stream, so that you can listen for reproducible instruments/sounds from the component being auditioned. Same thing when setting up a listening area (moving things around, adding a new component). 
 

Critical listening for me evolved into musical enjoyment once things are just right. 
 

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