Listening to music I don’t particularly like

@edcyn 

bikeske -- Try the Third Movement, the Adagio, of Bruckner's Symphony #8, in a performance by Eugen Jochum and the Berlin Philharmonic on Deutsche Grammaphon. The rest of the symphony can get, as Bruckner tends to be, more than a little long in the tooth. But the Third Movement is as beautiful and moving as anything I've ever come across. I love it dearly.

Thank you, I'll give it a listen. Jochum with the Berliners is typically done well.

Diana Krall.  I would certainly never have gotten any Diana Krall if I had not started chasing the audiophile sound.

The closest I come to the OP’s situation is that I listen to different music when in my car than when listening on my home system.  In the car, I prefer uptempo and hard rock.  In my home, I prefer easier listening and some genres that I would otherwise not listen to, like old-time country (not a fan of most modern country music).  I think it is because the softer music has a broader range of sounds and I can hear individual instruments more on my home system than on the car radio.  Still, I enjoy the music or I don’t listen.  Like classical music — it just strikes me as more suited to a funeral than to a relaxing evening at home. 

 For me, this is really a 'to each his own' case as the audio hobby in general. I have gritted my teeth at someones new toy when I worked at a local college. Dam, the kid was so impressed by his new ear buds, what was I going to say? He loved them. I listened to them and tried my best not to wince.

  Same for me though. Sometimes when I get 'the next level' component (or think that I do), it takes a little bit to come clean with myself. 

 I have to remember how excited I was by the music itself, way back before I had ANY good gear.

I would rather have a Root Canal without anesthesia than spend 5 minutes listening to music that I don't like because it sounds better on my system