Why, specially, are audiophiles worthy of scorn on HN?

Show some damn respect for others interest.

I think the kind of audiophiles who buy gold-plated HDMI cables because they sound better give the others a bad name.

Yeah...not that anyone should take a dump on the whole crowd, but spend much time in an 'audiophile' forum means wading through toxic levels of Flat-Earther calibre psuedo-science screamed as unassailable 'fact'.