There are indicators that oxytocin may help to decrease noise in the brain’s auditory system… It may also enhance reward responses.
Oxytocin is a naturally occurring hormone, and the above suggests that if you want better, and potentially more rewarding, SQ, it may be helpful to stimulate oxytocin production before a listening session. Consult the Wikipedia page for ideas about how one might do that.
We all have these nights that the audio system suddenly sounds much better than ‘normal’. I always wonder what mechanism is behind this phenomenon… there could be thousands of explanations, from technical to psychological, but maybe this is one factor.