Impress Your Friends and Seduce Women!

Ikarus, I think most of us would like to "impress" on our friends the joy of (well reproduced) music. I find music so rejuvenating that I have a hard time believing everyone couldn't benefit from it. (Of course not all that many folks are willing to turn off the TV long enough to develop an "ear.") Guess they always have VH1. Charlie

Redkiwi's above post touches on what to me is a really significant aspect of enjoying music, and that is simply "state of mind". Sometimes no matter what I listen to, it doesn't sound good, and I just have to quit. Other times music will "calm the savage beast", and then there are those "magic moments" where state of mind and music quality come together to actually produce a sort of euphoria. I can't explain it-- too subjective (as many things audio are); but state of mind during a listening session sure is important to me. I would also say that audiophiles seldom either recognize this, or maybe just don't want to admit it? Or talk about it? Example; the other night I had a tense verbal "disagreement" with Dogface's woman (a neighbor), and later no music sounded good-- finally said to hell with it and went to bed. Craig.

Presumably not with Dogface's woman.

Redkiwi, how do you know that Dogface's woman is not the cats meow?

We kiwis are carrion for cats and dogs, and I suspect garfish are gobbled up by pussies too, but when I put it like that perhaps you have a point Albertporter.