One point to be made about the laetrile analogy:
Laetrile was touted as an anticancer wonder drug. Its effects are unproven. It is much, much worse to lure a potentially curable cancer patient away from standard chemotherapy regimens with an untested drug like laetrile than it is to offer for sale a relatively inexpensive device for audiophiles which may or may not be effective.
Cancer drugs have a measurable end point, life or death. No such end point exists for the subjective realm of high end audiophiles' impressions. The laetrile analogy, therefore, while technically parallel, is overly harsh,in my opinion.
Laetrile was touted as an anticancer wonder drug. Its effects are unproven. It is much, much worse to lure a potentially curable cancer patient away from standard chemotherapy regimens with an untested drug like laetrile than it is to offer for sale a relatively inexpensive device for audiophiles which may or may not be effective.
Cancer drugs have a measurable end point, life or death. No such end point exists for the subjective realm of high end audiophiles' impressions. The laetrile analogy, therefore, while technically parallel, is overly harsh,in my opinion.