If you read the paper they are open for that you can not prove nonexistance of something scientifically. So there can be outliers where detections is possible. Also they used more than one setup but these are not specified ? Also some studio monitors where involved in some unspecified cases ?
This paper is most interesting if you see what they tried to do, they used a range of typical audiophile stereos and a bunch of mostly typical audiphiles. So they build a very strong case for that the normal situation is that sligthly worse than CD quality is tranparent to most audiphiles in most cases especially at normal listening levels. The oposite is a rare exception but not ruled out as completely impossible. Their other conclusion is just as interesting, that most of the dvd-a and sacd they used had very good sq. Good masters . If you specifically wants to find the rare exceptions one can set it up like a challange. Where interested parties can bring in equipment they think is capable. A good modern fully digital recording that stand a chance for detection I don't think remasters of 30 yo stuff cuts it ( not DSD either ).. Listener(s) they believe are qualified. Failing on your own terms is much more convincing . And you most likely will find exceptions, people that with some special recordings on very good systems that can hear this. But it can not be expanded to a general case where most audiophiles can safely assume that they are this Special case. But if it makes you feel better you can secretly assume that you are that exception, I wont tell ;) But hey this is not what hirez audio is hyped up to be. The labels make the hype becomme true by providing better masters. An another note what is the "stuart paper" they challange is it an AES paper by Bob Stuart of Meridian perhaps ? I once had a white paper from Meridian where Bob stated that 20 bit 55 kHz sample rate was the ultimate limit . And they did sell a lot of dvda players ( can you see my sig ). -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85879 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
