Again. You get the exact same kind of reasoning from the people who produce and sell the most silly snake-oil products out there. And their customers experience effects exactly as vividly as you do. The only difference being that they try to correlate the experiences to phenomena that are just as silly as the products themselves.
What gives you this unshakable confidence in correlating the disconnect between measurements and the things you hear with the things you do?
Because at a certain point, the DAC measurements don't matter and what's left is critical listening. Everything ultimately has to be mediated through our own ears.
It wasn't a slight for anyone who experiences that way. Certainly it would be far easier (and cheaper) for me if I couldn't hear differences. I find dissatisfaction with a lot of DACs the more time I spend with them to understand how they sound and the flaws that become too difficult to ignore (And get in the way of enjoying music).As in: "If you don't mind fooling yourself and/or have tin ears, that's cool. You can't all be as awesome as me."?