@ezstreams If I’m reading, I’m not really listening, and the music is in the background of my mind. Like you, I’m often reading, if an album is playing, I’m often reading liner notes, same with CDs, if they have extensive note pages with instruments and instrumentalists, recording engineers, studios, producers, etc. I’m often on the phone checking the Forum, sales adds, or emails, etc. But the whole time I’m doing this, I feel like I’m betraying the musicians, as if I’m whipping out my phone during a live performance. So after a while, in order to resolve my dilemma, I either change the station and put the phone up; or decide to shut the system down and get back to work or go to bed.
I blame the paucity of really good music in my rather small selection. I need to organize what I already have and work toward building up a decent library, or cough up the dough to subscribe to a decent music service beyond Pandora, Amazon, YoiTube, and Internet radio. I’ve always been a casual listener, but I enjoy and appreciate good sound. Not quite an audiophile, yet.