Why audiophiles are different (explained with color)

Any attempt in enlightenment which attains group consensus... is inherently incorrect.

In the context of one developing a palette for wine or bourbon, is audiophilism largely about the development of a distortion palette relative to the actual arrangement and tonal quality of the instrumental and vocal sounds?

Close but re arrange the whole thing.

That the individual ear distorts... and we learn how to hear though our own individual distortion pattern. Our individual pattern and signal recognition and recording sytem. So to speak.

Where measurements are simply an agreed upon standard that we can hopefully use to have a functional baseline in comparisons. where enough of the parameters in measurement can erupt into a useful, transferable, repeatable testing system.

We can’t quite call it distortions as we don’t (generally, in the public or even the pro/science level) know the true relation of the hearing system -- to the so called measured numbers.

Some might be closer to that equation being solved than others... but until then, it will remain as a situation where the ’relative truth’ will stand in similar value to all the wrong directions or incorrect ones.

Thus all the colors of the audio language have evolved in a real and normal manner as to tasting or color definition in it’’s most minute detectibility, - Which is the limits of capacity for recognition and expression of nuance. Where everyone is different in that given skill set.

And that detectibility and/or language, in the general, continues to grow and evolve... and as that happens, as a system in flow or change.. we can begin to narrow in on a more agreed upon common path.