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Yeah audio quality is very subjective. I always love the Coat Hanger story myself.

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums...html#post15412

Originally Posted by Chill Cosby

They actually did studies and had audio professionals (recording engineers, that sort of thing) listen to SACDs and CDs on high end equipment and the two were found to be indistinguishable. One in particular was a blind test where the audio professionals had to push a button to switch between SACD and CD. In the test, the button would activate CD, SACD, or no change at all (so that the two were not always obviously different).

In the tests, their success rate was between 35 and 50%. Meaning even professionals whose job it is to listen to and analyse sound weren't able to tell the difference between the two, as 35-50% is indicative of the same result you would get if you just guessed.

Now you know!

Link to the paper.

http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=14195