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If you do a search on Digikey, you'll get something like this to help narrow down the many pages of results:
That is not an insignificant number of things to choose from. It seems natural to me that choosing an opamp with different specs should result in some tangible differences. Otherwise why do they bother to make so many types? It's not like Texas Instruments and Linear Technology are part of a snake oil opamp industry leeching off the wallets of audiophiles.
Different types of opamps interact differently with different circuits. The audible differences are subtle compared to differences between headphones. But they tend to be exaggerated when described because the differences were what the listener was focusing on.
Like with everything else in audio, placebo is also a factor. But I would hesitate to say it is the only factor in this case.
That is not an insignificant number of things to choose from. It seems natural to me that choosing an opamp with different specs should result in some tangible differences. Otherwise why do they bother to make so many types? It's not like Texas Instruments and Linear Technology are part of a snake oil opamp industry leeching off the wallets of audiophiles.
Different types of opamps interact differently with different circuits. The audible differences are subtle compared to differences between headphones. But they tend to be exaggerated when described because the differences were what the listener was focusing on.
Like with everything else in audio, placebo is also a factor. But I would hesitate to say it is the only factor in this case.