Do you trust your ears more than measurements?

We may not all agree but there are many ways to approach your system.  Wealth of info here. 

I trust the measurements. At this point, audio is not a mystery to science. It knows how to measure the whole frequency spectrum. It knows what the vast majority of people prefer. And it knows about people's proclivity towards cognitive dissonance. Companies like Harmon Karden have been measuring this for decades and sharing the results.

I want to start out neutral and if my preferences differ from that I can always tweak with a slight tone adjustment. But if the measurements start out all over the place, all the tone adjustment in the world may not be able to fix it. Some people will be outliers. Not so much in audible capabilities but in preferences. And that's fine too.

My approach is to set to flat and adjust to taste.

Room eq 1st, spl 2nd, 3rd for taste.

Best of both whirld's, mho.

Been doing that more or less for over 30 yrs. now.

I suspect it all comes down to how you hear what you do, and how you prefer 'that' to 'be'; which is probably as unique as your fingerprints...

...which is Not to infer that I wouldn't like or enjoy listening to yours, mind you...

I'll just need a few moments to adjust my 'onboard eq'.... ;)

Have a happy Sunday, y'all...

I trust the measurements of my ears.