The quote was from the latest Stereophile issue but I have run into that attitude, many, many times over the years. I suppose my decades in and out of the business could be populated with outliers, or maybe I have just imagined ("invented") it all... But read reviews and letters in most any issue of any audio magazine and you'll see the dismissive attitude toward measurements and technical folk in general (unless they align with their viewpoint, natch). Or check out some of the other audio fora around, or some of the comments in various threads here. This forum is focused on the science and arguably is too dismissive of the "other" side, but frankly of the dozen or so audio fora in which I have participated over the past twenty years or so only 2 or 3 are not completely biased to the subjective and any attempt to provide any sort of technical basis as a counter is shouted down. I've known a lot of really great audiophiles and engineers, many of them the same people, but there has always been a bit of a gap between those leaning mostly subjective vs. those leaning mostly objectively. Yin and yang.
There is the equally vexing attitude that measurements tell everything, but as an engineer (and musician) I don't have an unbiased viewpoint. I generally try not to be too dogmatic about the engineering side, but have been in hot water for more than one debate for countering what I perceived as subjective bias unsupported by science, with engineering facts and figures. Chances are what I think are reasonable posts to me, come across as know-it-all and condescending to them, one reason I am trying to cut back on posting. Just like their posts that if I cannot hear what they hear then clearly my hearing/system/whatever is not good enough seem arrogant and condescending to me.
The saying I made up many, many years ago was "audiophiles listen to the gear, musicians to the music". That was back in the 70's/80's when I was in the biz and so many audiophiles (a fairly new label then, at least to me) seemed overly concerned about measurements and prices (not always in that order). Too often the pursuit of sound overwhelms the simple enjoyment of the music IME/IMO. When taking measurements or in the practice room I am analytical; but when performing and just listening for fun, I try to turn that side off.