Originally Posted by
YNWaN
Not just when modifying gear, but also when assessing it in general, it's easy to obsess over specific aspects at the expense of the greater picture - that's one of the problems with having specific reference tracks.
Also we can all be easily fooled by our own brain/ear interface, what mood we're in, expectation bias etc etc hence people believing they can hear differences between mains cables etc. Other examples being when trying to design a speaker crossover by ear (not a good idea)... I've known times in the past I've spent hours tuning active crossovers it to sound what seemed great at the time, late at night after hours of tweaking and using only specific test tracks, only to try it the next day, rested and on different music, and finding it so awful it seemed beyond belief that I could have thought it anything other than truly dire the night before!
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