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I agree about the bullshit meter. 20 years ago it was people claiming they could hear the difference if they had a headphone cable with gold-plating.

> it's just if there's no objective measure of how it's "nicer"

I think with all of these topics there is a fundamental test: make the person do a blind test and see if they can see the difference.

Sometimes people can (somebody challenged me to taste-test filtered water vs tap, a coworker could identify bottled coke vs normal) and others can't (a friend couldn't identify FLAC file vs normal).

If the person is afraid to do the test, that's a good indicator to me that they might already know it's more of a hype thing.