Time of Day for best Sound

Back in the 1980s, there was much discussion about how music sounded better at night - and why in the pages of Stereophile and TAS. Well, the "why" of it is that fewer people are using their electricity as the evening moves on, so the draw on the power lines is less in the late night/early morning hours when people are turning in for the night. Fewer people using power = cleaner electricity without "sagging." This was one of many articles in the old, journal-sized, TAS (up until around 1997 or so), which had much more in the way of "how to" articles, courtesy of Enid Lumley. They discussed record cleaning, which platforms suppressed vibration the best, how to tell if a component was reproducing music correctly, etc.

There are some power conditioning devices that can make your rig agnostic to 'time of day'.

As my system has become more hi-fi it seems to have mostly overruled vagaries in the electric grid. I used to specify late night listening for maximum music, but now I often find that even high demand periods like dinner time can sound very good everything else be damned.

Still though it is true that the midnight hour and thereabouts has poured out the most memorable musical sessions. There are times though such as Thanksgiving eve when nearly every household is up late preparing THE DINNER for the next day, and that seems to do something to the grid that is semi-tragic for musical reproduction.

Seems like it sounds best during the times I am relaxed and focused.

@mapman +1