It will be difficult to make this a welcoming place for engineers and scientists because they will quickly tire of the attacks of the Wikipedia experts and those enamored and convinced of the infallibility of their ears and brains, even though confirmation bias is well understood in psychology and the foibles of non-controlled subjective audio testing were put to bed by actual audio engineers decades ago.
The funny things is, actual engineers and scientists do far more subjective audio testing than these armchair audio athletes, they just do it in controlled situations with larger groups. When one of the audio athletes wants to prove a point, they will latch onto an actual scientific paper like a rabid crocodile if it in any way supports their position.
Audio press, many manufacturers, dealers, etc. are more than happy to encourage this mindset .... it is in their best interest as it helps sell their highest margin products, which drives advertising, which .... well you get it.
Take a count of how many threads there are about cables, fuses, power conversion, isolation products, and similar "tweaks". Now take a count of how many threads there are on acoustics and room treatments, and how few people have any significant knowledge in this area. A well placed $200 absorption or diffusion panel is going to improve sound far more than a $2000 cable upgrade, a few thousand in room treatment, more than 10's of thousands of "tweaks". It may not make the audio industry go round, but it is a path to the best sound possible for a given budget.
So how do you change things ... ask better questions? I don't have an easy answer, but I am sure it starts with the consumer.
