Great! Because that's ultimately where I'm coming from. It's the periodic tendency for someone here to say that Loudspeaker A can't possibly sound as good as Loudspeaker B, because they looked at the measurement graphs and the measurements don't lie. And if anyone happens to think Loudspeaker A does sound good, well then that person has defective hearing or is a moron, or both.
Can you please find an example of that happening here at ASR?
The closest I can recall (of course, my memory is not that good!) would be for someone to assert that Loudspeaker A sounds
better, in such a manner as to insinuate that their opinion is (or should be) accepted as universally superior for
other people
regardless of measurements. Yes, that's poking the proverbial tests-and-measurements hornets nest. But I think that anyone in a public forum, be it about cars, shotguns, fishing reels or lawnmowers, will get pushback from that type of assertion.
As far as people having an opinion that
they like speakers that are demonstrably less perfect than others .... well, it's my impression that it happens all the time around here. No one really cares, nor do they get upset, at what other people
like. To each their own. People here have tube gear, large-format coax speakers and vinyl gear scattered all through these pages. No problem.
The only problem I can see is someone trying to characterize ASR as something that it is not.
Jim