Listening without interpretation...is it impossible?

The vocabulary and sound experiences used and suggested by audio engineering mass market in audio magazines is NOT the vocabulary and experience used and suggested by acoustic and by psycho-acoustic sciences...

And the vocabulary and experience of music is NOT the vocabulary and experience of the others two...

Learning how to use and experience and DISTINGUISH the reality suggested by these words and concepts in these THREE different perspectives is very important...

But contrary to the vocabulary in acoustic and psycho-acoustic experiences the vocabulary used and suggested by electronical design mass marketing HIDE the musical experience behind the sound experience and for the sake of the sound experience of the particular piece of gear...

Acoustic reveal music, the focus on the gear obsession hide it...

For the OP. citation i think it is an interesting one because NO ONE can listen music tabula rasa... We all come from experiences and past history which act like a sieve and a filter... Positively and also negatively....there is a balance which is related to each one personal musical evolution history and  cultural and spiritual knowledge here...

For example it is impossible for someone NEVER exposed to the history of the symphony in European music to catch the meaning of the 5th Bruckner symphony finale...

But when i was 14 years old i immediately loved Bach at first listening but with the help of a short musical education in a music course.... None other composers ever attracted really my attention at these times .... Then there is also a past history in us not coming from this life only perhaps and there is in us an innate taste unbeknown to us waiting to be awaken...

But music is like mathematics and the scale of each meaning levels cannot be PERCEIVED and LOVED and UNDERSTOOD without a loose or a minimal formal education of ourselves by ourselves or by others and with time and listening experiences...

Even crocodile are not tabula rasa anyway but we cannot change easily their basic taste....But it is possible with a baby crocodile with a part of him relatively a tabula rasa.... I have seen a South-american man educating a crocodile young to be his pet.... Perhaps he can teach him "love" manifested at his most basic level....Anyway....

«We can educate even crocodile with time»-Anonymus Smith reading Darwin and the Bible...

«Do you suggest here that we can educate audiophiles or the rap music lovers?»-Groucho Marx 🤓

«It will not be politically correct to say so brother»-Harpo Marx

Listening and interpreting is how one’s ears become trained. In fact all our senses work that way. The outcome should be better not worse. So I am not seeing a problem with how things just kinda naturally work. Am I oversimplifying things? Maybe there is a problem with how we naturally operate that I am not aware of?  I’m kind of shy about complaining to the big guy though.

Listening without interpretation is the definition of journalism...and also meditation. 

Can you let go of your beliefs? or disbeliefs? and just listen?

That is up to the individual doing the listening, some can.... many can't. 

One thing which I definitely take away from the quotation is the idea that good discussions about audio have are integral to the changing meaning of the experiences of listening. Same thing has been true when I listen with a friend and we comment to one another --

"Notice that?" "That was kind of 'edgy'" "Really, I liked the 'sparkle' in that cymbal -- not edgy to me. Listen again." And so on.

Or when I read good writers reviewing speakers or other gear. They communicate a whole narrative of how they take the sound, how it moves them. And I listen again, with their words now part of my background. I don't necessarily am bent toward their words, but their words become part of what I anticipate, even sensorily.

If someone meditate and can forget when listening all his history and biases by definition, he did not listen to MUSIC anymore but to Sound frequencies or to silence...

This way of listening is very therapeutic, the more we put ourself into it...

But it is no more culturally and individually performed music which we listen to , it is communion with sound as an uncreated force...

In that silence and sound change their role, suddenly sound ressemble to silence and silence contain sound....

AUM is no more sound or silence but both...

Listening without interpretation is the definition of journalism...and also meditation.

Can you let go of your beliefs? or disbeliefs? and just listen?

That is up to the individual doing the listening, some can.... many can’t.