I’m thinking of leaving a FB group called Chifi audio reviews because daily there’s people asking the same unfounded questions about what cables sound the most transparent, or tame treble, or increase detail etc. Sometimes it’s the same thing but about DACs which I almost understand (shitty outputs can make headphones and IEMs sound thin and lean but I think that’s just a matter of bad designs). Burn in is another such culprit. Do just a couple of minutes of searching online and you’ll be presented with facts and reasoning telling you it’s bunk.
It drives me nuts, it’s like having flat earthers and scientologists everywhere in the hobby everywhere I turn. It’s slowly driving me nuts, lol.
I don’t want to outright dismiss the snake oil because I can clearly hear the difference between MP3 and FLAC, but I got in a conversation on the iPod forums with someone who swore they were listening side by side on the spot and could not tell any difference. That’s why companies are able to market products that are well past most people’s diminishing returns, their is always that doubt that you haven’t discovered something yet.