About a month ago a well-known and widely respected audio designer took part in one of our blind tests. Before the test, he’d claimed he could easily hear the difference between MQA and HiRes and also between FLAC and WAV. The tests clearly demonstrated he couldn’t (neither the former nor the latter). Of course, he blamed this on our audio system and on the way the test had been carried out. That’s why we agreed to repeat the whole thing – with his own music, on his own system, in his company’s (acoustically tuned) listening studio (where they do all their own testing!). We also used the test method he demanded…
Surprise, surprise, he failed again. This time the results were even worse (score of less than 55%!!!). Unfortunately, I’m not allowed to tell you who I’m talking about. In fact, the guy explicitly warned us he’d sue us if we gave away his name…