Not really. One way *thinks* it's rooted in science and proof...
It is not thinking. Everything about audio is indeed science. To think that somehow all of this audio technology came to be without any science at all is absolutely absurd. Literally every single bit of the audio world is based around science.
It is only the audiophile community that somehow has people who think that it is instead based on feeling and that you feel a new headphone or audio equipment into reality.
It's like saying that a standard Toyota Corolla sport package is actually faster than a Nissan GTR because you feel like it is faster than a Nissan gtr. It does not matter that the performance numbers don't match up and it does not matter that there were third-party reviewers who tested both a Nissan GTR and a Corolla and found out that the GTR was faster. You are going to continue to believe that the Toyota Corolla is faster. Then you are going to paint your Toyota Corolla a wild color and spend over $100,000 on it because it is somehow better than a GTR because you said so.
Or if you are more familiar with the computer world it is like saying that an Intel seller on CPU is actually faster than an i9/i7 because you felt like it was faster than the i9/i7. Even though there are no performance metrics to back this up it is just about your feeling of using the computer and you have just decided that the Celeron is faster.