Do you trust your ears more than measurements?

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. 

I spend money to please my ears. I measure to figure out WTF is happening, not to tell me what "good" sounds like.

So, if you ask me, what are the best amplifiers ever made, clearly the CJ Premiere 12s. How do they measure? Kind of like garbage!! :D

OTOH, I rely heavily on frequency and distortion measurements to guide m in building new speakers as well as setting the up, repeatably and predictably in a room.

Even then however, lots of studies show that we like different overall amounts of bass. Who should win? My mic or your ears? Tell me this: who worked hard for the home, amp and speakers? You did, so your personal and emotional tastes should win.

Also, the measurements most audiophiles read about were decided upon 50 years ago, so I cannot believe that they these simple half dozen or so measurements we read for an amp or speaker are inclusive of all that can happen in an ear brain mechanism for everyone, or that the mastering engineer in 1982 was listening to my system at the time, so .... be true to your own decadence I think.