jkeny wrote: 
> Well this guy, ultmusisnob, stated that he had a decided preference for
> high-res material in his "normal" sighted, long-term listening.

That might well be, but as your quote shows, he states rather clearly
"The above results contribute ***nothing*** to the established science
of 192/24 versus 44.1/16 and human hearing", so we should not draw any
such conclusions from it.

> Your interpretation is just one such angle, another would be that what
> is easily differentiated in long-term listening becomes very difficult
> to differentiate in this form of testing & requires some very specific
> techniques & test material to do so i.e it is a reflection on the test
> itself rather than on the material being tested.

That is something you might choose to speculate, but I don't think that
thread provides any evidence for or against such a theory. 

> 
> > > > They do establish that when I say, "It sounds better to me", I am
> > reporting a provable reality, not a placebo effect.> > 
> 

I think that is a rather too strong a statement to conclude from that
specific test (as shown by the other comments in that thread). Anyway,
let's not get sidetracked - I think we can conclude that it is possible
that some differences might require training and concentration to pick
out - anything beyond that is speculation, unsupported by empirical
data.



"To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this
fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt
edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953
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