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#Audio woo consists of various vague and unsupported claims for devices or methods for getting better sound quality from systems that reproduce recorded music. Such claims are made by manufacturers, hobbyists, and writers in the field.

In at least two senses of the word, audio woo is not to be considered sound science.

An #audiophile is someone dedicated to producing the highest possible fidelity in the playback of music. While this is a reasonable goal, much of the industry that caters to them sells extremely high-priced equipment that claims to improve sound through highly dubious mechanisms and/or badly misunderstood real science. Most double-blind studies have shown that there is no difference in detectable sound quality for most of the equipment sold, and some of it is actually inferior in quality to less expensive products. Many of the products use appeals to magical thinking and #pseudoscience to explain their mechanisms. …

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Audio_woo