netchord wrote: 
> you may be able to say the -files- have not changed.
> 
> the music definitely has.
What has definitely changed is what you hear - your *perception* of the
soundfield generated by the system.
After you switched off iTunes integration (not really expecting any
difference), you did indeed perceive a difference.
And so quite reasonably you sought an explanation.
It seems logical to you to assume the difference must be due to some
change made to the system, and you homed in on the fact that iTunes
integration has been switched off.

But there are other explanations for why you perceive a difference in
what you hear. Human hearing varies day-to-day, even minute-to-minute,
and is affected by all kinds of external factors. It is overwhelmingly
more likely that you initially heard a difference due to some other
factor (such as your physiological state at the time) rather than any
change to the stereo system. But because you have internally correlated
it with the change to iTunes integration, that belief has become part of
your mental world model.



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