What’s wrong with the subjective in audiophilia?

So many objectors to subjective assessment, especially in this forum for audio science!

Objectivity is judgments based on facts and undistorted by bias, emotion, or prejudice.

Equipment can be sized. That’s objective. Metres, decibels, distortion (of a certain kind). Universally defined measures. Undisputed, non-threatening knowledge that when shared enables so much activity. Will the considered amplifier fit on my shelf?

Subjectivity is personal.

Our interaction, relationship, engagement, response to physical objects – gear, operation, and outputs – is part of appreciating phenomena such as sound quality.

Is the amplifier that fits on my shelf good value-for-money and does it look good?

We never hold practically-applicable knowledge without asking “so what”? In our own circumstances, with our own values, experience and expectations, we interpret the meaning of what we sense, we evaluate it, then choose a course of action. These differing appreciations are what we argue about.

It seems that objectivity delivers truth. What is. The best, the worst, the biggest.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-cliches-of-subjective-audiophilia.26241/

We can describe external physical things as objects, but emotions and preferences are ours, and social phenomena don’t exist independently of us.

A subjective experience is the emotional and cognitive impact, and the objective experience is the events of the experience. While something objective is tangible and can be experienced by others, subjective experiences are produced by the mind. While quite real to the person experiencing a subjective experience and often profound, it cannot be objectively or empirically measured by others.

Some of us distrust science and don’t accept the principle of objectivity, arguing that scientific knowledge is as much a product of  socially determined interests and biases of investigators as it is of facts, which themselves are products of social processes.

A former colleague once told me that objective knowledge was agreed subjective knowledge.

There is nothing wrong with subjective assessment. But it is often claimed to be objective, or superior to objective, or to be irrelevant. Then things go wrong, because they are wrong.