Thanks for your comments. What we look like in this moment is as you describe. But that doesn't describe the totality of the history of the forum and its missions.
If you look in past threads, you see plenty of listening tests presented and tons of discussions on results of such. See an example of an article I wrote on differing sounds of amplifiers in blind tests:
https://audiosciencereview.com/foru...ts-did-show-amplifiers-to-sound-different.23/
In much of my reviews I comment on psychoacoustics of the distortions seen and in most cases I point out that what is seen is not audible distortion.
Measurements do have a lot of power though. They are independent of one's ears. And importantly are affirmation or rejection of the manufacturer's advertising as to performance of their products. In the specific instance Schiit BiFrost Multibit, I think most people assume they are getting a superior product not only in sound but also objective performance. They think that ladder DACs are fundamentally more accurate, have lower noise, etc. My data shows that this is not the case. That is news to many so it has gotten a ton of attention.
Secondly, blind tests are hard to organize if we don't know what we are testing. If you randomly tested 128 kbps MP3 against the source, you can easily find millions of tracks that would be transparent to many listeners. But pick tracks that are designed to show weaknesses in its design and you will find that people can in double blind tests tell the difference. In the case of DACs, no such characterization has been done due to lack of measurements. So creating bling tests would literally be line blind driving.
In the past I have done blind tests of DACs and as you say, differences are impossible to spot outside of the DACs that bleed noise from computers. So again, it is not due to lack of trying or interest. Our history as a forum reflects that balanced view, but not in the short term.
Finally, there is such an incredible vacuum of objective data out there that our measurements are filling. The demand is very high to have such information so a lot of people are paying attention to them. Few people are in a position to blind test multiple DACs prior to purchase and are hungry for any information to separate products.