Teo, it's an appeal to authority because it isn't backed up with any evidence or answer, merely assertion about talent/credentials. Your response reduces to an irrelevant and incomplete assertion of what ears do (even if we stipulated that, it wouldn't necessarily bear on audibility of differences), and then has several paragraphs that can be summed up as "I'm awesome, you're an idiot, get off my lawn".
Your response to this is "you're an ignoramus, get out of the hobby". This attitude closes, rather than opens, minds. Furthermore, it is suspicious. I've come to understand from my 31 years of business experience that nasty bluster is most often a smokescreen.
- I remain open to the possibility that I am an audio philistine, but I have my doubts given my long and continued experience with live music, the reference standard
- I have admitted I sometimes hear differences between amps, but, after reviewing evidence (incomplete?) I am also open to the possibility those were explainable by power/obvious artifacts or simply not objectively audible
- I have explicitly asked for further evidence that I may have missed and shown people what I have reviewed.
- I've freely admitted I enjoy the hobby no matter which way my beliefs go on these subjects, and, after all, I don't listen blind.
- But who wouldn't want to know?
Your response to this is "you're an ignoramus, get out of the hobby". This attitude closes, rather than opens, minds. Furthermore, it is suspicious. I've come to understand from my 31 years of business experience that nasty bluster is most often a smokescreen.