Bad news for audiophiles?

That sounds like good news to me. I don't care how I get to "happy." Delusion works fine.

From many of the above responses it's apparent that audiophiles have trouble handling the truth.

Audiophiles don't have to handle truth by default. Audiophiles handle propaganda and dogma.

The vast majority of people in developed countries have a
distinct aversion to the truth , applies to Audiophiles but
not much more than average.
Those who are forced to deal with reality on a daily basis have no choice but to deal with the truth.
But not many Asian rice-farmers or Mumbai slum dwellers have much of a system.