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I was in my car the other night and switched to a local calassical radio station and a piece was playing. I suddenly became emotionally involved with the music even though the car radio system could easily be described as crap. It was Dittersdorf Viola Concerto in F Major and I had never heard the piece before. I can't help thinking audiophile enthusiasts somewhere in their journey get so anal-retentive on the sound, and because of this, miss the event. I am not suggesting that this comment applies to you Paul, but it has certainly applied to me in my journey. Sometimes we  cannot see the forest for the trees.  Why can we listen to a piece of music in the morning and then at night and get a different emotional feeling from it. Is it really because of bad electricity or some other technical abberation or is it simply we are more tuned to an event. I have learned from this site that listening to music is an event, whether it is live or CD or Lp record. Consequently, listening to the same piece of music at different times on our system is a different event and therefore likely to evoke a different emotional rection.

I like looking at audio in this sense. It is a sort of acceptance. I am not always looking for a holy grail of sound but merely accepting the event and letting it give me what it will. Hopefully in the future this will let me discern more easily the difference in audio systems. Thanks to the philosophies on this site I am getting morte joy from my music listening and hopefully in the future I will not be regarded as an audio fool or moron(tongue in cheek). 

It would appear that you have managed to isolate an electrical problem but I would caution that most audiophiles are fooled when listening to music because they are not relaxing and listening to a wholistic event but are listening to the particular sounds which make up that event. Although these isolated sounds make up the music, listening only to the isoated sounds is foolish and results in moronic conclusions.

Gordon     

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