Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older?

@simonmoon: We all walk our our musical paths. Mine has been the reverse of yours; I started with 20th Century (Stravinsky, Copland, Ives, Vaughan Williams, Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Holst, Ravel, Prokofiev, Penderecki even (his "Threnody To The Victims Of Hiroshima" is the single most terrifying piece of music I’ve ever heard).

Then, just as I followed the bread crumbs back from the Rock music of the 1960’s to it’s origins in the Hillbilly and Jump Blues music of the 1940’s, I went backwards in Classical: through the Romantics (I love Wagner), then the Classical era (who doesn’t like Beethoven? Or Mozart? Well, except for Glenn Gould ;-).

But my love of Baroque music surpasses that of any other. Well, except Bluegrass.

@simonmoon What are the sources from which you are exposed to so much great new music?

Umm...  because most new music lacks things like melodic invention, harmonic movement, dynamic contrast...   There are no dynamics when the sound level goes from too loud to too gddamn loud.  When was the last time you heard a pop singer sing "I believe in love" and you really believed her?

Time to get a good digital setup , Roon as your music organizer ,look it up,

and QObuz for the library music from all era’s over 70 Million songs ,

you would never run out of music ,and you can even build a virtual library 

to have at your disposal, youjust pay the months fee ,or yearly  not expensive at all 

if you just have analog count on at least $10 k with dac ,quality Ethernet,and usb cables , to match or surpass your analog system 

66,and I listen to new music all the time.