Here, on HN and similar places, people have strong bias toward scientism, making fun of audiophile cables and such, but the actual truth is, audio business is u

Here, on HN and similar places, people have strong bias toward scientism, making fun of audiophile cables and such, but the actual truth is, audio business is ultimately an entertainment business, and if, for some unknown (and potentially very subtle) reason something sounds better, no one really is willing to research the matter deeper, because, the research may become prohibitively expensive, with weak or no results all. Of course, there are general trends, like more linear DAC usually sounds better than less linear, but it is not always true. I mean, sometimes, two seemingly equivalent designs may sounds noticeably different, yet their physical measurement would suggest otherwise (which means, we are measuring the wrong thing).