Most pleasing sound vs most hifi sound

I don't think this is so uncommon--I got chills listening to the opening to "So What" on an NPR feature on Kind of Blue on my kitchen radio a while ago. And how many times have I listened to that album? And how many times has that happened to me while I was sitting down and "critically" listening to it? Not as often as I'd like. Got the same this afternoon listening to The Who on the classic rock station on the drive home. Here's to the lo-fi!

Do you have a bose system in your car? =8^)

Rodman, if you had to live about a hundred yards down the street from a biker bar, you would not think the exhaust note from a Harley was the sound of freedom. It was the sound of torture for my wife and me. We had to sell our home and move to escape the "freedom", and to keep our sanity. Try listening to your home system with those bikes constantly tearing up the neighborhood, with ninety percent of them taking out the baffles to make them even louder. They say they do it to make drivers of cars know when they are coming. But you don't hear the noise until they are going away, since it's coming out the back of the exhaust. The sound of "freedom"? The sound of "Hey,look at me."

A car system is in a closed acoustical space, so detail and low level information are more readily discerned. In addition, the car runs off of a 12Volt battery...DC, as opposed to AC wt grunge:(

I think it has a lot to do with being preoccupied while listening. There's a lot to say about driving to the beach and playing tunes you love or twisting through the mountain pass while listenning to your prefered musical passage.

Sitting at home is just very different..perhaps clinical at times. I actually like reading, watching a ballgame (without sound on) or surfing the net (like right now) while I play music. It's the rarest of rare that I just sit and stare into space while listening.