When is your best listening time?

Yet another shameless plug by Coffee Fool based out of Minneapolis..  =]  (kidding)

It's weeknights for me, post-work, and maybe a session on the weekend too.  

The best hifi-related purchase I have made to year to date are two floorstanders, that's two dimming  floorstanding lamps from IKEA -- makes almost any time listening time.  

Late at night for me, when everything has been done for the day.
Lights dimmed to a minimum, with a cold or warm drink.

And my setup sounds better late at night too, cleaner power, less outside noise, better state or mind, a combination thereof, whatever it is, it works.

Only danger is the "one more song"  syndrome, which can make things get very late. ;)

My best listening time is about 5 am.  I am a night owl, up all night, sleep till noon.  Insomniac.

Right now listening to the LOST AND FOUND  album by Dzihan and Kamien (FLAC), using Audio-GD  FUN as a DAC off of SPDIF from my music server, Little Dot MK III as line stage, AMC CVT 2030 MOSFET-EL34 "speaker" amp to drive HiFiMan HE-6's.  (Great combination, I really like the 'tube sound' this provides, yet with tons of power and control.  And the mids from an EL-34 simply cannot be beat!)

The HE-6's sound really great with this amp.  LCD-2's are not bad with it either, but with the LCD-2's I like to use my Audio-GD NFB-10ES driving the LCD-2's balanced.  The ESS DAC really compliments the LCD-2's.

Night time. Due to my studies, there's always hordes of pages to be read, and I can't really enjoy the music to it's fullest till I'm done with that.

Nothing like the satisfaction fo being done with the choirs of the day and having a few hours to do whatever I feel like. That's when I really enjoy the music.

any time really. i just unplug and bring my portable setup

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Originally Posted by tk3 

Late at night for me, when everything has been done for the day.
Lights dimmed to a minimum, with a cold or warm drink.

And my setup sounds better late at night too, cleaner power, less outside noise, better state or mind, a combination thereof, whatever it is, it works.

Only danger is the "one more song"  syndrome, which can make things get very late. ;)

Most of my listening time is also done at night. And very often I am victim to the "one more song" syndrome which happens up to several times each night.

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Originally Posted by tk3 

Late at night for me, when everything has been done for the day.
Lights dimmed to a minimum, with a cold or warm drink.

And my setup sounds better late at night too, cleaner power, less outside noise, better state or mind, a combination thereof, whatever it is, it works.

Only danger is the "one more song"  syndrome, which can make things get very late. ;)

Yeah that 'one more song' thing gets me, too!   FAR too late....

It's probably very common among headphiles. :)

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Originally Posted by tk3 

It's probably very common among headphiles. :)

too too common. sometimes right before bed. i put on my headphones again just for that..why not thing before i brush my teeth and other late night things.....its soo soo hard to put the headphones and music down. sometimes i just bring my set with me  it's hard keeping my portable setup and amp in my pocket with full size headphones on while doing all of it...but...but...i need too!!! >_< hha

night time about 2100hrs. And will listen to one song after another one until I force myself to stop!

After work, in the morning while getting ready, before bed, quite often really..

Whenever doing work, always listen to music as I'm getting ready, and before sleep.