Over the years, I have found in any hobby such as ours, where there is a large group of people that take more than a casual interest, you will always find a small select few in that group who are obsessed with the tiny unimportant details of the equipment itself rather than actually enjoying what it does! I am sure at one time or another, we have all run in to them. You will tend to find them more in so-called "high-end" high priced retail outlets. A couple of years ago I met a fellow who had that kind of attitude and had just opened a new store. He is now OUT of business. A few are convinced the only way to listen to music is through very expensive tube amplifiers and vinyl and say everything else is garbage. Being an old musician way back, I ran into guitar players who were totally convinced unless you were playing a 1957 "vintage" Fender Stratocaster everything else was crap!

There is, in essence, kind of a "misplaced snobbery" in which you to have to roll you eyes and ignore.