The term "intelligent ignorance" comes to mind. Sometimes "not knowing" is "smarter" than "knowing." We got a gift of a bottle of wine that was 5x what our typical wine costs. Big mistake. No, we're not spending 5x for wine these days. We only upped the ante by 2x because our appreciation of good wine clicked up a notch. But that's still 2x to get us to a "wine worth drinking" these days when we were totally satisfied with our "standard" wine of the day(s).
Same with audio. Sports cars. Bikes. Etc.
The song "Comfortably Numb" may have a literal interpretation here?