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I often see claims like this from audiophiles yet the research with AB tests has generally found that no such differences actually exist.

https://hometheaterreview.com/why-do-audiophiles-fear-abx-te...

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That may be true for sources and amplifiers, but not for speakers/headphones.

Go to any audio store with speaker rows and listen to a few. They are hugely different, and none of them are cheap quality.

Which basically means that we are far from solving the accurate speaker problem.

There are also cases where the differences in amplifiers are obvious - for example some headphone/amplifier combinations have issues with low frequency response (related to impedance IIRC)

Genelec/Revel/Kef beg to differ. You can measure speakers and there are a fair few accurate ones out there.

The problem that we are far from solving is the problem of people buying inaccurate speakers.

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