How does one "Get lost in the music"?

I can only get lost in my good hifi gear these days. Standards are too high. I can listen to a lot of other lesser stuff down to ipods and table radios, but only get lost in the best.

WHen I was a kid, I got lost in teh best I had then, which was a transistor radio, portable 8-track, compact phono, portable cassette, Sanyo all in 1 integrated whatever.

It gets harder once standards go up, no doubt.

Ignorance can be bliss!!!!!!!

So here's the dilemma.

If you have high standards in regards to what sounds good, there can be no going back.

So the more you spend and the more you tweak and the more you obsess, the more you become doomed perhaps to never being able to settle for anything less.

Its the American dilemma in general in a nutshell, I suppose.

Maybe we'll learn some lessons for our next life, whatever that may be.

Mapman, I enjoy your posts and generally agree but not this time. I heard the beginning of a Lou Reed track on the radio in my van this morning (standard issue Toyota sound system) and really wanted to hear it to the end. It made no difference that it was a car system. If the dogs had not been antsy for their walk I would have stayed for the whole tune.
FWIW I think it was called "Pale Blue Eyes." Please correct me if I'm wrong about that.

Tost,

Yes, that does happen to me as well on occasion in the car when not in a rush, etc.

But when it does, next I want to hear what I heard at home with my good gear to get the full experience.

Some car systems are very good! My current ones are just so so, but being locked in a car for a period of time is certainly conducive to getting lost. HArder to do at home with distractions, etc. sometimes.

It's definitely the music first, and then the system. No matter what your system, the music should catch your attention and hold it. The system will then allow you to hear more and more of the music as it progresses. I'm assuming anyone here is always at least thinking about some sort of upgrade. But it's all about the music. So if you are having trouble getting lost in it, you need different music, unless you have made an upgrade that was really a downgrade and that's what is really bothering you, and not allowing you to sink into the music.