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> Brad Meyer and David Moran of the Boston Audio Society have (once
> again) proven that we are all deaf.

In my September "As We See It" essay, reprinted this morning at
www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/907awsi , I report the results
of blind tests performed at McGill university that came to a different
conclusion to the Meyer/Moran findings: "To achieve a higher degree of
fidelity to the live analog reference, we need to convert audio using a
high sampling rate even when we do not use microphones and loudspeakers
having bandwidth extended far beyond 20kHz. Listeners judge high
sampling conversion as sounding more like the analog reference when
listening to standard audio bandwidth."

The tests were perfomred by Wieslaw Woszczyk and John Usher of McGill
University, Jan Engel of the Centre for Quantitative Methods, Ronald
Aarts and Derk Reefman of Philips. Their conclusions were contained in a
paper presented at the 31st International AES Conference, held in
London, in June 2007, "Which of Two Digital Audio Systems Meets Best
with the Analog System?", and reprinted in the Proceedings of the
Conference.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile






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