I'm trying to find out if it's listening with the intent to "critique" the music, equipment, medium or all of the above. If it is then it's no wonder I'm not a critical listener. However, that's not to say I don't hear flaws in the music or it's reproduction it's just that I choose to listen to the music and only use the critical aspect when I need to fix something or make a change. This probably doesn't make much sense. Then I seldom do anyway