Don Pearce said:

Well, we've cleared that up. You have this desire to brainwash
people into buying the cheapest stuff that will get the job done,
and you act out on Usenet.

Audio 'borgism can creep up on you.

I think presenting the option is hardly brainwashing -

How, exactly, do you "present the option"? If "the option" is engaging in
"tests", it seems quite impractical to me. Krazy Krooger just fatuously
Kroo-klaimed that one can do meaningful DBTs without a comparator and without
spending a great deal of time. Those are patently false assertions. Perhaps you
can shed some light on this subject.

which I think we can happily direct to the other side of the argument.

You mean my "argument", i.e. that spending many hours and many dollars to decide
which cables to buy is foolish? If anybody doesn't view the issue that way, it's
a good bet they have issues about audio equipment.