I wish some of this illogical thinking on the part of the engineering studies majors could be divested so that we could really have a substantive dialogue surrounding the concept of finding what sounds good. They are rooted in procedure and cannot understand that measuring the temperature of water doesn't tell you how big the ocean is.
Why is it you can have these kinds of dialogues with Math majors and philosophy majors and astronomy majors; but anyone who has been trained to do engineering has a closed and locked mind.
I had an opportunity to speak to Ed Duda; the original design engineer for Lafayette and he still swore to me that all capacitors sound alike and a person would have to be an idiot to spend more than a buck on a capacitor. Look it's right there on the scope; no distortion. They have to sound the same then.