Do you trust your ears more than measurements?

A complex question. One example of why the ear, unaided, is not best.

1. I set up my rig. I thought the bass sounded great.

2. A longtime poster here recommended measuring to see what the SPL graph was, then adjusting things in various ways. I did that.

3. When I listened again, I had no idea how much better it could be. It was beyond my comprehension. Without measuring, I'd have never gotten there.

Repeat the above scenario for measuring impulse graphs and really focusing the soundstage. 

The ear is easily pleased. Measurement offers a way to try things which please the ear even more.

It's a dialectic.

Absolutely - 100%, but I do use long term listening when making decisions.  Listening is how I experience music through my system, and how I determine what sounds best. Even if what I like doesn’t measure how someone else prefers, it’s still what I like to hear.

Hilde45 said it better than i could..

It is a dynamic process of learning and experimenting and training between physical measures set of parameters and the ears/brain impression... It is psychoacoustics ...😊

If i must trust my ears/brain by definition if i want to tune my systems/room, i must also train and educate my ears/brain using various measurements isolated parameters to refine and correct my first senses impressions.

 Then debates between subjectivists and objectivists crowds  is non sense...Psychoacoustics say it all ...

Audio is subjective.