ursdiego
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Hello Guys!
Is anyone aware of any real, high quality, representative (double-)-blind-tests done to evaluate whether High Resolution Audio does sound better, equal or worse than CD-standard?
PLEASE no speculative theoretical answers here - the internet is full with them all over, the same for good sciense based explications. However, real blind tests are rather rare.
The only one I am awaree of is this:
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=14195
"Audibility of a CD-Standard A/DA/A Loop Inserted into High-Resolution Audio Playback"
The conclusion there is rather disillusioning: Not only that, according to this test, human do not seem to be able to determine a difference between CD-Standard and Hi-Res-Audio, but even worse, they did not even notice the digital-to-analog and back to digital and again back to analog - loop in between - something that must struggle us quite a bit.
Any other tests that can be cited? I would love to see one that proves that Hi-Res-Audio makes sense... (real evidence, representative, double-blind-tests, based on hi-quality-downsampled streams)
Thanks for any links! Cheers!
Is anyone aware of any real, high quality, representative (double-)-blind-tests done to evaluate whether High Resolution Audio does sound better, equal or worse than CD-standard?
PLEASE no speculative theoretical answers here - the internet is full with them all over, the same for good sciense based explications. However, real blind tests are rather rare.
The only one I am awaree of is this:
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=14195
"Audibility of a CD-Standard A/DA/A Loop Inserted into High-Resolution Audio Playback"
The conclusion there is rather disillusioning: Not only that, according to this test, human do not seem to be able to determine a difference between CD-Standard and Hi-Res-Audio, but even worse, they did not even notice the digital-to-analog and back to digital and again back to analog - loop in between - something that must struggle us quite a bit.
Any other tests that can be cited? I would love to see one that proves that Hi-Res-Audio makes sense... (real evidence, representative, double-blind-tests, based on hi-quality-downsampled streams)
Thanks for any links! Cheers!