Sound is complex. There are many countervailing influences. It can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have to eat it and see what happens.

Treasure frames acoustics and listening as systems with many interacting variables—physical (room reflections, frequency masking), psychological (attention, expectation), and social (context, intent). The “bowl of spaghetti” metaphor suggests that, beyond a point, sound cannot be fully understood by linear, isolated analysis; it behaves like an entangled set of causes and effects. His punchline—“eat it and see what happens”—endorses practical experimentation: listen, test, adjust, and learn empirically rather than expecting perfect prediction. The quote also carries a gentle warning against overconfidence in audio “rules,” implying that real-world listening often requires iterative, experience-based judgment.