Sometimes you have to change you

Makes sense - the music provides the stimulus and you provide the response, and that response to the same stimulus can vary depending on a number of variables....

Sns,

I agree.  Sometimes playing a known great sounding CD or stream will ground me to realize it’s not the system that’s faulty.  I can then go on to listen to lesser quality sources and realize their flaws are not system related.

I listen to original LP's. It's part of the hobby aspect for me.

Often, I simply have to shut off the audiophool ears and listen to the music. My setup, or ANY rig just makes a good album more enjoyable.

I think that a variety of factors can lead to this.

The most obvious one is the listeners mindset.  Sometimes I sit down to listen and discover that I listening isn't the right activity for the moment.

Other times I'm am convinced that my system simply isn't sounding as good as it sometimes does.  I wonder about the power grid impacting the sound as it seems that during the day is when it routinely doesn't sound great.  This was actually what caused me to play with power cords a bit.  If money were not a factor I'd look for something like a PS Audio power plant just to see if I felt like my system sounded more consistent.  

Our subconscious know more than us especially with hearing...

For sure sometimes i am tired and my attention is not in the music...

This is fact...

But when i dont seems to like what i hear, the sound, it is because there is an acoustic tuning problems in my system /room... It is because of this subconscious guidance and with his help that i tuned my room in a long process over many months ...

It is no more the case... All recording sound good now, some are better recorded for sure...

But sometimes we are not in the mood or necessary concentration needed for some music style....

My system was well chosen 7 years ago...Acoustic tuning of the room  has take much time...But when it is finished, ALL recordings sounded interesting, even the bad one, because i can listen to the acoustic cues chosen, during and by the bad recording process and i can understand them better now and benefit anyway from the music ...

It is easier to listen music when you can hear a "revealing" set of acoustical cues emerging from your speakers/room TRANSLATION of the source...There is no perfect  reproduction, only acoustic translation in normal small room, save in an  anechoic room...

Each music ask for a new pair of ears save if you are a rabbit.... 😁😊

Each music ask for the same attention save if you are only a man of habit....

Each sound in a good room convey the music at least a bit....

Sometimes, i ask myself , how this room being there, around my head can so well fit ?