Snake oil came first. By a likely ~ +50k years

Whoa! Even Wikipedia gets involved.

ControversiesEdit

There is substantial controversy on the subject of audiophile components; many have asserted that the occasionally high cost produces no measurable improvement in audio reproduction.[20] For example, skeptic James Randi, through his foundation One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, has offered a prize of $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate that $7,250 audio cables "are any better than ordinary audio cables".[21] In 2008, audio reviewer Michael Fremer attempted to claim the prize, and said that Randi declined the challenge.[22]Randi said that the cable manufacturer Pear Cables was the one who withdrew.[23]

Criticisms usually focus on claims around so-called "tweaks" and accessories beyond the core source, amplification, and speaker products. Examples of these accessories include speaker cables, component interconnects, stones, cones, CD markers, and power cables or conditioners.[24][25]

There is disagreement on how equipment testing should be conducted and as to its utility. Audiophile publications frequently describe differences in quality which are not detected by standard audio system measurements and double blind testing, claiming that they perceive differences in audio quality which cannot be measured by current instrumentation,[26] and cannot be detected by listeners if listening conditions are controlled,[27] but without providing an explanation for those claims.

I buy my placebo in bulk, wholesale. I then pay the local shaman six chickens and a goat to 'double whammy' the stuff to full potency.Generally a single case of mojo enhanced placebo lasts years once it is 'Double Whammied'.

Read this thread then went to sleep.

@geoffkait : " But seriously, can you give me an example of an audio device or tweak that doesn’t have science behind it?"

Everything has science behind it right? So that is hardly a qualifier. Of anything. 

" You are not an engineer or physicist so maybe you’re not really a good candidate for finding a science explanation."

So only engineers and physicists can use science? Not at all surprising that you would look at things that way. 

But since, according to you, there is a scientific explanation for absurd audio tweaks....and if you're not sure what I'm talking about I can refer you to a website that's full of them...then just pick one.....even from that website....and enlighten us.

"I did not create reality."

Geoff, we all know false modesty when we see it.