I was reading the June 2008 AudioXPress and I found Gary Galo's AES column
quite interesting. He says:
" Out of 554 trials there were 276 correct answers-no better than "coin
flip" results. To those of us who have recorded in both high-res and
CD-standard digital, the conclusions seem ridiculous".
And:
"On my own equipment, the differences between SACD and CD layers are
readily audible. Yet the conclusion of Meyer and Moran is that "Our test
results indicate that all of these recordings could be released on
conventional CDs with no audible difference". In their view, "Further
claims that careful 16/44.1 encoding audibly degrades high resolution
signals must be supported by properly controlled double blind tests".
Apparently they believe that recording engineers such as Tom Jung are
simply deluding themselves. Perhaps we also need a series of ABX tests to
verify whether there are any visible differences between NTSC and HDTV".
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