@HeadphoneNoob, one of the things that some of us have been trying to explain deals with the nature of experience. A couple of years ago, I tried to explain this with an analogy. I’ll link to the post below. The point is that you need not simply knowledge but you need to develop the understanding that comes with educating your EARS. Nobody is saying that making measurements - the focus of ASR- doesn’t show something. But it most certainly doesn’t show everything. It’s like judging a salad by the greenness of the lettuce. You can measure a whole lot about greenness. You can even posit that a salad that has little greenness won’t be very good. But it doesn’t tell you much about taste.
Here’s the example I tried to use. If you’ve never really examined type, and you look at this, you will see things you never did before: