Especially considering the price tags we normally see.
I simply can't understand why people gladly accept the idea of multi kilobuck gear needing "band-aids" to function properly.
People will pay absurd amounts of money for an amplifier, or even a streamer, when they could get the same performance for one tenth of the price, sometimes for one hundredth of the price. Chord has perfected the art of audio-bling, take a piece of equipment, shove it in a fancy case CNC machined from aluminium, and Joe Mug thinks it is ultra performant. Audiophile mains cables and fuses are just a continuation of the whole rotten confidence trick.
Another example is PMC. They market their speakers as using the Advanced Transmission Line, with a outlet based on Formula 1 technology, allowing great bass extension. Except it doesn’t. The outlet is a piece of plastic, and the frequency reaponses of their consumer grade speakers are all over the place, and competing products without an ATL have just as good a bass response, if not better. I’m sure it’s not just British companies that indulge in über-audio-bling.