I trust myself for what I like. I've been to countless live music events of every kind; a world class symphony and opera company, blues , jazz, rock music venues of every kind in town. I've seen Solti conduct Verdi's Falstaff, Wagners Ring at the Lyric, to a spitting fight at a Dead Kennedys show at the Aragon( Jello Biafra started to yelling spit on me at the audience. You had to have been their, or not), and evry kind of modernist, world music imaginable. I may want to read other people's opinions on music here, but in the end, it's almost always my first instinct/choice that I go with, and most importantly, enjoy listening to.
"How many of us account for the fact that the subtler differences we think we’re hearing may just be our brains telling us there’s something when there’s nothing just because it seems there should be?" Well, then so be it. It's my brain that is going to enjoy, or not, what I hear.
And "We must train our hearing by tuning our brain with thinking concepts and setting experiments in a system/room with different musical styles", "Tastes must be educated.", " We need acoustics concepts to understand audio", "Crocodiles had tastes and we cannot convince them their tastes are bad habits...A part of our brain is a crocodile..." and on and on. @mahgister I would be so depressed if I had to go through all that to enjoy a concert. In all of that, I have never heard any system reproduce any live music event I've been to. I've heard spectacular systems producing great sound, and I have listened to a live Jazz performance, then played back in the same room, not moving from my spot. I own one recording that puts me almost inside an orchestra, something like I once heard at Symphony Center from a front row seat just left of the conductor.