As a musician, this happens to me as well. If I hear a piece of music in a noisy environment my brain will fill in the gaps. I’ll think, “Wow, this music is really interesting.”

Then I’ll hear it in a quiet environment and realize that I preferred the version where my brain adding things to make up for what I couldn’t hear before.

I guess it’s a little like diffusion. The brain has natural denoising processes which, in an unconscious way, taps into our tastes.