I don't have much choice because my special interest is multi-track recording and mixing, which requires me to listen repeatedly to every bit of what every instrument plays, over and over again while tweaking hundreds of settings to get the best sound. By the time I'm done, although I don't exactly hate the recording, it feels as though I can barely hear it as music any more, and it seems to go in one ear and out of the other, and there's nothing in it that can affect my emotions like it could when I heard the early results of my efforts.