"let your ears tell you if the tonality has changed" And how do we compare the before and after? Sorry, but I have to ask - 'cause I'd bet that it's pretty hard to directly A/B that setup.
Human auditory memory last maybe 10 seconds, and on top of that as a species we're kinda notorious for accomodation and similar phenomena of perception. If we somehow cannot arrange some way to do a fairly direct comparison then it's awfully darned hard to claim similarity or difference 'cause our mechanisms of perception just cannot support those claims.