How about......"I trust my hearing"? IME, the most important element throughout the learning/listening experience, is to understand/develop to know, what "characteristics" of recorded music reproduction "are important to you". For me, well......the MUSICIANSHIP and the COMPOSITION. My system conveys both to me, to my liking
. Once the speaker/room/listening seat tripod is accomplished successfully, everything else becomes much easier. Once you know, you know. 
My best, MrD.
"I Trust My Ears"
Do you? Can you? Should you?
I don’t. The darn things try to trick me all the time!
Seriously, our ears are passive sensors. They forward sonic data to our brains. Ears don’t know if the data in question represents a child crying, a Chopin prelude, or a cow dropping a cowpie. That’s our brains’ job to figure out.
Similarly, our brains decide whether A sounds better than B, whether a component sounds phenomenal, etc.
So, "I trust my ears" should really be "I trust my brains".
And that has a different ring to it, doesn’t it?