What’s your obstacles on the way of listening

My room is very quiet.

Wife, kids and phone messages all play their part but nothing so much as the sheer lack of time.

To make things worse, it takes me ages to get into an album these days. The days when I could give a record several weeks for me to get into it have long gone.

Jimi Hendrix LPs used to always take a fair bit of time for some reason.

I’ve been listening to ’Vauxhall and I’ again as a friend said it was his favourite Morrissey album.

Previously I kind of skipped through it, preferring Viva Hate, Your Arsenal, You are the Quarry etc, but going back to it some years later I can now see some of its charms.

I hope it doesn’t mean ANY album could start sounding good IF you play it long enough. Maybe it’s best to leave that troublesome thought that in the realm of dreams that some marketing executives might have.

Well, I am waiting on GIK to cough up my new traps and diffusors next month, but in the mean time I have my crossovers out so I can convert the cables to the individual drivers and from the amp to removeable, as well as fixing up some issues with how I had caps installed.  So right now, my main system is unusable.

All the rest of life. 

I am lucky our house has a daylight basement where my audio system is located. . My listening room is essentially underground and in a sprawling space so the acoustics are fantastic. My lawn guy can be right outside on the daylight side and it is barely disurnable.
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However, the as quiet the heat pump is, in an adjacent room,  it still clogs the soundstage when on... summer for the heat. I have a separate headphone system to listen in the evenings when the air conditioning is on. Mornings, it typically is not.