Perfection?

Don't worry, it just means you're alive...

I try to get there at least once a week (usually Sat evening after a couple of beers). I have been listening to "The Gladiator" soundtrack lately. If you like incredible dynamics and deep bass, you will love this CD. If that won't make the hairs stand up, I don't know what will.

I think I'd try shaving your back. This sounds serious to me! Oh and yea, I have the same feeling, EVERY NIGHT! I love music and how my body relaxes with it. J.D.

Tireguy: I have rarely experienced what you describe with music playback and then only with the human voice. Live I have gotten it from odd beats (such as good fifths played on the drums), voice of course and on rare occasions from combinations of instrumental notes and textures. You are very lucky if it is a regular occurrence with your system, plus it's legal.

Oh waiter--I'll have what he's having!

The music is the thing ... I get goosebumps and tears listeneing to the clock radio, if it's really music. If you really love the music, the playback system can be secondary. I was lucky enough to attend undergrad with mezzos Stephanie Blythe and Margret Lattimore ... to this day you could play them to me through a tin can and I'd still respond with the same goose bumps I got when I listened to them all those years ago live.