Do the Audio gods shine upon you?

I guess I am from the camp of 'the glass is half empty'. I sometimes sit down and nothing seems to excite me. I know which CD's are 'lifeless' and do not even play them on my main rig. After surfing on a few songs, I turn it off. Not sure why. Maybe I was just not in the mood to listen after all. Other times, I really get into it. I envy those that literally get goosebumps while listening. I do not. I jealously hope that they are not enjoying their music more than me.

Another 'plausible' explanation...would be changes in humidity and temperature and barometric pressure.

All these conditions affect the density of the air. Ask any pilot. Air is less dense when hot, humid, or high up
(like Denver). Aircraft performance deteriorates with less dense air. Why wouldn't it also affect the sound waves reaching our ears? Remember those train whistles on certain days sounding different?

My guess would be the more dense air would provide sonic benefits as the air molecules would be most closely associated with each other, and our speaker drivers are essentially 'bumping' the molecules....which then 'bump' each other...until reaching our tympanic membranes (eardrums) and bumping them to create small sympathetic vibrations which are then converted to chemically mediated 'electrical' signals carried by nerves to our brains. Wow!

On second thought, it probably is just the Audio Gods!

They freekin love me. The music hasn't been so good for a long time, but, I'm sure they love me.

Hopefully, they'll love my new room and system.

Bill

It might be because of shift in your ear wax. We should all get ear wax cleaner from a drug store, and clean ours - most cost effective tweak.

Also it might be your body condition. Some audio lovers would actually get up and exercise to be in top condition for their listening session.

I find audio a great help in exercising - with a sub going on a pop music with heavy drum beats, you don't feel the pain.

Anyway, I found that if you assemble a liquid sounding system, then those special moments happen more often. You can enjoy music right from the beginning without having to warm them up.

Yes I would have to say that the audiophile Gods do shine on me regularly. My system does tend to not sound as good some days as other days and I have often wondered about this. I don't doubt that my hearing my vary from day to day. Also I do notice that often the most magic seems to happen late Sunday evenings and on into the night. I attribute this to better quality AC power at that time because it stands to reason that there is likely the least amount of power used by other sources at that time. I tend to notice more reverb and almost a surround sound effect as I often hear sounds comming from far beyond the outer boundarys of my speakers. I also agree with everyone else who said the biggest variable in how much I enjoy the music is my personal mood and mental state at the time. If I am depressed or upset about something my system just sounds ok and I wonder what kind of an upgrade might improve it but when I am in a really good mood the sound is often very euphoric, emotional and involving. This also applies to all my other hobbies as well.