What kind of listener are you?

Situation listener. I am capable of being more tonal, dynamic or analytical based on the environment, my state and my familiarity with the actual music. 
And there are characteristics of systems that can influence the type of listener I am.  

While I have finally developed an ability to discern I also have lost a lot of my snobby ways and love listening to all kinds of systems. 

I've always enjoyed listening. One time in Costco the JBL system they had set up playing sounded so good I bought one just for the guys at work. Well the endo cases last an hour, you're sitting there doing x-ray nothing to do the whole time but listen to music, and it was only $100! But those JBL engineers were smart. Can't make detailed for $100 but you can make warm and if you get the balance right it can sound pretty good. And it did. They were so thrilled they reimbursed me, even though I said consider it a gift. 

That's the cheapest system I ever did. Only I can't take credit because the speakers, amp, wires and power cord, everything was JBL. All I did was listen. Which in the end is all that matters.

Hence the thread.

I have watched my listening change dramatically over the decades. When I was very young, equipment of any value was not to be found, yet I listened to music with awe, wanting better equipment. That came along in time, and the spirit of the music was still there. I listened often and to a wide variety of music. Maybe I was 40 years old, and before that point had started to turn into the analytical listener. It inspired me to appreciate the equipment that I was able to afford, and there are no regrets for that. Now that I am in my early 60’s, I listen less often, but when I do, it is a mix, depending on the quality of the recording, the mood that I am in, and of course, how the music moves me. I wish that I were young again.

Don't we all!

I'm classically trained singer. I listen to music and not only sound. The music has to be able to move me.