Are you a special snowflake?

You have been home to long.

The cadre of thought police will be goose-stepping into this thread waving Mao's "Little Red Book" in short order.

Mini-Mao's.

We call them Mini-Mao's. 

They won't get your reference. Mini-Mao's don't read books. Mini-Mao's read Facebook. Some of the more intellectual ones, Twitter. 

Most of us here have held to the standard of, unless someone has experience with a certain product or, say a better power cable than stock, they can have no valid opinion on that topic. They are just mouthing terms handed down to them by a source they respect. How their source came by their opinion is another question we may be able to unravel--or not. We live in a time of "easy knowledge", information we can read without applying the discipline of referencing sources, and so we question our knowledge base; how do I know what I know, and, what can be known? From Wiki:

Epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. Much debate in epistemology centers on four areas: (1) the philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and how it relates to such concepts as truth, belief, and justification,[1][2] (2) various problems of skepticism, (3) the sources and scope of knowledge and justified belief, and (4) the criteria for knowledge and justification. Epistemology addresses such questions as: "What makes justified beliefs justified?",[3] "What does it mean to say that we know something?",[4] and fundamentally "How do we know that we know?"[5

Before the censor police show up, let's apply these concepts to audio, please.  

They're just gonna say that's your education talking.

To borrow one of EBM,s phrases.....
I'm going to be up all night thinking about this one.