Curios if anyone else has a favorite time of year to listen, kind of really listen I mean, to their collection and explore new music? I feel like I am getting into mine for sure. I love fall, everything about it! Football (American), pumpkin everything, and my music. Spring and summer are always really busy for me and the family and I get taken away from my system with the kids stuff and farm work, etc. It’s always so nice to begin to unwind in fall and it’s really when I get to sit most and enjoy my system(s). I love it.
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I listen to more music from October to April.
I don’t think I have a season for listening specifically, but I do tend to be in the house more and so likely listen more in the cooler months of the year.
It’s not that I do not like listening in the summer or Spring, it’s just that I spend a whole lot of time outdoors when the weather is nice one way or another. I could be out in the garden, go to a beach, go sailing or similar.
I like all seasons but Fall/Autumn and Spring are my favourites, while Fall/Autumn and Winter are my listening seasons. I’m just somehow in the mood to do it, sometimes focused listening and sometimes as the accompaniment to a book, work, letter writing or Christmas cards.
I listen to all genres, following the ideas people offer up on the forum but there is also something about the darkening skies that encourages me to listen to the vast array of religious, predominantly choral music available on line.
I’m not religious but I respect the beliefs of those who are and living in the English countryside, as the farmers care for the land around me, and the changing colours and the lighting highlight its beauty I do feel the interconnectedness of the rural traditions and the Church. The rhythm of life is all around and I find the music captures that warm emotion and is deeply comforting.
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Thanks for the considerate posting. I do like Rutter/The Cambridge Singers and will have them on repeat around Christmas time but on this particular occasion I prefer The Byrds’ version of Ecclesiastes which is about to turn 60.
Apparently there is also a Marlene Dietrich version. In German. Now that would be something special and just in time for Oktoberfest!
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In answer to the question, I have no favourite time of year for listening, rather it depends what else I’m doing: I generally spend several weeks at a time several times a year travelling, not fixed as to season, so no hifi then, while when at home if nice weather (regardless of time of year) my time indoors would be more limited.
We had the first cold dip here in the UK and my modest system sounded the best I’ve heard it. Obviously atmospheric pressure and temperature has a big impact on sound.
Just over the road from me is a small substation that is feeding the utilities for a retirement residential building.
During the summer months it makes a constant buzzing that’s slightly discernible if I stick my head outside.
On really hot days I can easily hear it buzzing indoors. Also seems to contaminate my hifi. A few times I have found my amplifier suddenly singing along in tune to it.
This can put me off settling down for a listening session as It gives me that niggling doubt somethings wrong.
Lately the substation is behaving quietly and my music has taken a big jump in consistent quality.
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Definitely when the weather gets cooler and outside pursuits get more difficult. Windows are closed and it’s dark earlier, making for favourable listening conditions for me.
But also in the summer when my family is away on holiday - can crank it up to 11 without anyone shouting 
Spring & summer seem to be when I’m buying or selling gear and music, fall and winter when I’m listening and moving / testing gear.
I would further add a fair chunk of my favourite albums were all released around this time.
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