This is the equivalent of someone telling you exactly which Bullshido moves they would use if they were attacked by a professional MMA fighter.

I mean he did argue that they aren't a religious symbol before. He later contradicted himself and said that they are but I would not be surprised if he made that stupid argument again.

That isn't really a placebo effect though. It's just imagining things but for it to be a placebo effect your imagination would also have to lead to an actual, measurable improvement of the audio quality. Which needless to say is impossible.