This assumes music's value and power are absolute and independent of the listener's experience. But most evidence points to the opposite.
For one, music is culturally dependent and music from some regions of the world sound bad to people from other regions. Secondly, music becomes more enjoyable the more you listen to it. Yes, people certainly replay the songs they like, but replaying them makes them like them more; it's a positive loop that that feeds itself. And also, emotions derived from music use many other pieces of non-musical information: connection with the artist / ideas expressed in the piece / personal memories / etc.
All of this makes it quite unlikely there is some absolute sound yet to be discovered in the musical universe that would wow anyone on the first hearing.
If one is closed minded to learning math or the importance thereof, mathematics will be difficult. Similarly, if you see no value in exploring the world's cultural output, those explorations should prove quite difficult.
I do agree with your conclusion however, as it is unlikely that some "perfect sound" exists. If it did, we would not have made so much music.
We have had “hit factories” for quite some time now, suggesting at least there is some kind of musical output that helps the process of wow-ness upon first listen.
Sure, that formula does not always work on the moving targets of changing times and tastes, but i would argue that we actually do have a somewhat defined framework of that absolute sound (which has been around for some decades now). It’s calles pop music, now a genre unto itself. Yeah, you may not WOW every living human on earth every time with great accuracy, but we have McDonalized music enough to small-wow millions at a time on a first listen basis, just by virtue of being made using quite narrow musical frameworks using rythm, scales, chord progressions, arrangement etc
For one, music is culturally dependent and music from some regions of the world sound bad to people from other regions. Secondly, music becomes more enjoyable the more you listen to it. Yes, people certainly replay the songs they like, but replaying them makes them like them more; it's a positive loop that that feeds itself. And also, emotions derived from music use many other pieces of non-musical information: connection with the artist / ideas expressed in the piece / personal memories / etc.
All of this makes it quite unlikely there is some absolute sound yet to be discovered in the musical universe that would wow anyone on the first hearing.