It is easier to give examples of human perception, memory of what we perceive and intuitive reason reaching the wrong conclusion and being virtually impossible to override through logical reasoning using visual perception, rather than auditory perception.
The well known Adelbert Ames perspective demonstration/illusion of a odd shaped room with two people in it. It is usually perceived as a normal rectangular room with one very tiny and one normal sized person in it. It relies on the fact that it is axiomatic that you perceive the objects in the room as being the things that are odd sized and not the room, despite knowing logically that an unfeasibly tiny person is less likely than an odd shaped room. This illusion does not work on people who are from cultures where non-rectangular rooms are commonly encounters, they see the room as the thing that is odd shaped. It is assumption that has been made/learned intuitively by the brain about the shapes of rooms and is then being used intuitively to interpret reality. Memory and context shapes what you perceive as reality.
Unlearned instinctive faulty perception and conclusions are also normal. For example in the Eleanor Gibson visual cliff experiment you have a floor then a severe drop of several ft then a continuation of the floor at the bottom, then a severe rise and a continuation of the floor at its original level. You tile the floor and sides of the drop and floor at the bottom, etc.. with square tiles. Now you fix a very thick piece of load bearing glass across the whole floor. An adult will walk across the glass over the drop, but a baby will not crawl over the precipice. Even if mummy is seen by baby to walk over the precipice and place teddy over the precipice, even if mummy calls to baby and encourages baby to come to her across the precipice. As far as baby is concerned mummy and teddy are all somehow levitating, baby knows baby can not fly, baby will fall, no way baby going over the edge.
Dependance on perception and intuitive understanding of reality being reliable is extreme. Inversion goggles reverse depth perception. Put them on an adult and you get momentary confusion and bewilderment. No they were not cruel enough to put them on babies. Probably because if you put them on a monkey, the monkey rapidly refuses to move, for days, it would rather go without food and water, it can no longer comprehend how its moving relates to physical reality, eventually driven by desperation it will move slowly backwards.
Then you have cause and effect. The human mind seeks to organize a otherwise confusing world. It will make cause and effect links when all there is pure coincidence or expectation of effect. That reasoning can then shape how you perceive reality in future, the easily heard difference that becomes impossible to reliably hear in a controlled double blind test. Perception focuses on aspects of reality, if you listen to an identical piece of music twice you may notice different things, if you expect it to sound as if it has a wider sound stage or what have you, you are likely to be listening for the effect, and more likely to hear it than someone who believes it will sound just the same as last time. Perception will even fill in gaps based on previous experience or expectation. It is far from reliable.
Fortunately humans have the ability to comprehend that their perceptions, memory of what they perceive, and intuitive reasoning enabling them to comprehend reality, all interact to shape how they perceive the world and can all prove to be fallible. I would rather trust science, measurements, controlled double blind tests, than my own perceptions and intuitive conclusions, at least until the scientists start experimenting on me.
With the visual examples it is easy for someone, to comprehend that their senses, past experience, intuitive understanding of the world have all proven wrong. All it takes is to walk across the odd shaped room towards the tiny person. To see someone walk over the precipice and place a foot on the glass over the edge. To try and pick up an object or walk wearing inversion goggles. With the hifi cables the proof that your senses, past experience, intuitive understanding of the world are all causing you to perceive something which may not be true, comes from a sensor reading no change or the results of a controlled double blind test. That proof is a lot more difficult to accept than proof provide by your own interaction with the physical world.
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