Yep, I agree. Never meant to say a pretty widget does anything.There's a lot of Tomfoolery in audio. That's one of the reasons I set about doing my own thing - Too much psuedoscience, snake oil and sales rhetoric in hifi and prosound. I prefer real science or real art to a weird voodoo mixture of them both. Add a touch of ego to the mix and the audio field is replete with charletans.
That's why I like this forum and ART in general, it's sort of a "no spin zone."