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Confession time: Have you ever "tricked" your own ears?

Have you ever convinced yourself that you heard something in your audio system only to decide or admit later on that you were hearing nothing significantly new or different?

After a period of confusion and/or denial, you finally admitted the truth. Maybe it was something that you thought *should* be or was *supposed* to be audible, but in fact was not audible (to you). Maybe you wished to hear a thing because hearing it would lend credence to an idea, theory, or technological platform that you were enthusiastic about. Or maybe you just wanted to feel like you were more "golden-eared" than you really are. In the end however, you repented and recanted...

Here are some possible examples:

- Everyone told you that direct-drive turntables were inherently "noisy" or that DD mechanisms "blurred" microdynamics, etc... You listened for it and initially thought that you heard something. Later on, you admitted that, to your ears, direct-drive created little (if any) sonic signature of it's own.

- Cables? You spent a wad of dough on expensive cables and really wanted to hear a difference, so at first you heard a huge difference. Later on, you humbly admitted to yourself that the differences you heard were actually pretty tiny or even negligible ones. Perhaps you admitted to yourself that you "heard" because you wanted to justify your purchase, or something similar.

- Differences between DACs or CD players. "At first I thought I heard it, but later on I wasn't so sure..."

- Differences between preamps or amplifiers. "I think I can, I think I can..."

- "Perfect Polarity"...?

- Etc, etc, etc..?

The list might go on and on, or it might not. Maybe you've always been totally honest with yourself, maybe every purchase you've ever made resulted in an audible change or improvement in sound. That said, admitting that you do have a problem is the first step towards recovery. And recovery is what AA is (or should be) all about. Please come forward.


Edits: 09/11/14 09/11/14
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Topic - Confession time: Have you ever "tricked" your own ears? - genungo 08:14:29 09/11/14 (107)
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