Getting into the music

My solution to that is to focus on lyrics. Their meaning and the way the vocals and music deliver it. Let the music speak to your feelings about the words you hear. 

The problem is not listening to the sound as such , the problem is the fetichist misplaced idea that the sound balance or unbalanced experience  comes from each gear pieces , then criticizing a component as being in need to be upgrade at higher cost ... Most of the times the upgrade is not needed...

The balance and unbalanced experience very often dont come from a lack of synergy between parts , which is possible for sure and not rare , but result from a not well embedded system in the room ...

i listen the sound from my system always  but i hear always  music not sound ...Because all parts are synergetical and well embedded together electrically , mechanically and especially acoustically ... Then if  listening is  a conscious act, hearing is not a conscious act at all , anyway the more i consciously intend to listen the sound , the more i hear the music and nothing else which is called immersiveness experience ...

Why ? because in a balanced system the sound dont exist out of the music and serve it ... In an unbalanced system  some frequencies range , some lack in the transients, some absence of dynamic or some excess ,etc,  impose the same  sound haunting  ghost which hide the recording trade-off choices of any album  nevermind the musical choices ...

I'm playing the back nine at this point in my life and of coarse my upper frequency are rolling off with my hearing So I went with a different approach with my stereo rig  My main speakers have built in powered subs and I also have two SVS Ultra 13subs with the upgraded plate amps  I mostly stream Qobuz and everything is dialed in from my listening chair. The subs are either side of my Tower speakers So I'm having close to a bass array  Anyway when I listen to my music now being so full range and dynamic, I can't get the smile off my face!

I feel and think I've hit my personal 'ceiling' (prior to an all-out 'face plant' *L*) on audio accouterments beyond my diy driver diddling.....*waves white flag with odd glyph*....

I can listen to nearly anything I care to and enjoy how it's being rendered by the choice of what I have to render it.

I've established a personal 'baseline' of the means to do so in the equipment at hand; the cables, the ic's, the various 'n sundry....

Not SOTA, by any means, but 'SORTA'....i.e., enough.

I could and can mess with room acoustics, the eq, the occasional swap of one item for another when the muse rises from coma and demands a trigger-pull on X to replace Z....and leaving Y untouched...(pun intended)....

Case in pointless...

If I can listen to 417hz monk 'ohms', segue into The Prodigy live in Moscow, chill with some AON for awhile.....and sleep soundly and soundless.....(I don't dream much, and they're usually sans soundtrack anyway....)

I'm good.*S*

I'll just kibitz at the clan....

Spouse and self are looking forward to an entire Thanksgiving week to ourselves; the employs asked to have the entire following week off...on their own dime, except for the normal holidaze pay....

Y'all enjoy yours as well...'ciao, J