Don't take any notice of these theory guys. They go and look in a book to tell you that you are wrong and they love to say they know more about what you hear than you do. This is a sign of insanity.
They don't have any experience themselves of what they are talking about. They are like teenagers who are telling adults how to do things.
To them, just to make some comparisons with real life, a steak is a steak (if it meets the standards), a road is a road (if you can drive on it), lenses are lenses if you can see through them.
Yes, sometimes stuff is indeed snakeoil but, if your ears think it is better (consistently) then it probably is better - go with that - get advice from people who have the experience themselves, not the know-it-all Googlers, bookworms and theoretical physicists.