If your down on your system…

Mistake. If you're down on your system it does not matter. You have work to do or money to spend. Music and the technicalities of reproduction are two entirely separate issues. You can love the music but hate the sound.
With the judicious application of force you can bend any spoon.

Interesting that it comes down to the cables, LOL. 

Duckworp,

Mistake.  Generally very careful about punctuation.

@ mahgister
I don't think so. I was a musician (in that I no longer play trumpet professionally or for any other reason) and I feel that was a help rather than hindrance to listening to sound rather than "music".
Playing an improvised solo was one thing but being part of note combinations the rest of the band was looking at was rather mechanical.
Pleasant to be part of but mechanical none the less.

I enjoyed the "sound" of every note structure combination.
It is probably why I went into selling audio equipment in my Don Quixote quest to reproduce "sound" as realistically as possible.

Take a deep breath and try to get into the music you’ve selected. After all, you’ve hopefully selected it for the music itself and not just for the sound. That’s where the payoff is.

I agree with the statement. Its about the music. Yet I wonder if the music has enough allurement to pull them out of the sound they hear. Then too, it may be that they are reacting to the music itself. You cannot divorce the sound & the music. The music is the sound & the sound is the music
I generally don’t say much about a persons choice of music. Yet I often wonder how anyone can get into what passes as audiophile approved music. It seems apparent that this music is approved based solely on its sound qualities and not its musical quality. Yet I must say that if you truly like it, then so be it. You may not like my selections. But they are my selections, not audiophile approved by the mfgs & magazines who want to show off equipment with sonic qualities