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There are still a whole bunch of nut job audiophiles on the net. These guys are subjectivists. There is still an honest following of vinyl recordings, though. Some of the old records were very well done.

Engineer audiophiles have been building randomly switching comparison systems, to make an A - B comparison without any possibility of human intervention. Levels are made equal to 0.1 dB. Switches have pure silver contacts the size of dimes. The subjectivists are invited to bring in their system, and the engineering type puts in a very normal, very high quality, system of his own, and the comparison system swaps individual components from both systems one at a time using a random number generator.

Both guys sit and listen. You know what happens? Mr. Golden Ear, the Maestro, Mr. Subjectivist can't hear the switching when it occurs. Instead of realizing that he is a conceited fool, Mr. Subjectivist says that there must be distortion coming from the relay's silver contacts and switching transient suppressing capacitors, otherwise he would easily be able to tell his stuff from the more vulgar apparatus. (Some custom made D/A, A/D stuff being used for this, too. Turns out these guys can't hear a 24 bit 96 kHz D/A any better than anyone else.) Those dudes are getting a pounding.

You know about the $500 per foot speaker hook up wire? Can you believe these guys are buying special $500 cables to replace the 120vac to the power supply wires? Those dudes must vote Democrat. Sucker born every minute.