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J. g. holt the founder of stereophile at the end of his life was of the
mind that audio is near death for having neglected this:

Interview in stereophile, of which the entire thing is worth the timed to
read.

http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/1107awsi/

Audio as a hobby is dying, largely by its own hand. As far as the real
world is concerned, high-end audio lost its credibility during the 1980s,
when it flatly refused to submit to the kind of basic honesty controls
(double-blind testing, for example) that had legitimized every other
serious scientific endeavor since Pascal. [This refusal] is a source of
endless derisive amusement among rational people and of perpetual
embarrassment for me, because I am associated by so many people with the
mess my disciples made of spreading my gospel.

It is ironic the very mag he founded was in the forefront of this neglect
and of promoting voodoo audio., as it and fellow travelers continue.