This is a point that I and others have brought up before in similar threads. I truly believe that a lot of objectivists who argue here can hear the differences that others do and simply dismiss them as insignificant.
The underlying reasons are not important. What is, is that they are dealing in bad faith.
i think you judge too hastily...
Ignorance and/or different perspectives by different people are not most of the times expression of "bad faith"...
Accusing people dont help here...Understanding is better because acoustic experience is not anyway simplistic matter at all...
In a word "subjective gear fetichism " or "objective tool/gear fetichism" are fetichism and ignorance of the nature of acoustic experience, not "bad faith" they express legitimate perspectives disconnected from the other complementary perspective...
It is not so much political oppositions here, but instead different perspectives excluding the other...Then ignorance more than "bad faith"...