If I recall correctly, it was Grill who created the files and the test. My take on the whole matter is that welld-one DTS (lossy version) sounds pretty darn good and is very acceptable to me. AC3 (Dolby Digital) is decidedly inferior and when given a choice between the 2, I'll always opt for DTS.
Of course, MLP and other lossless codecs sound terrific and give me all I could ever want for high-quality playback. And I do believe that I hear an improvement in quality of sound reproduction when playing back hi-res material. Whether this is due to the extra care taken during mixing/mastering, the inherent "betterness" of hi-res, or a combination of the two, I am not so sure of.
One problem with this thread was the way it veered off into personal attacks and such. While I do think that Steven S. might have been able to blunt this by adopting a more conciliatory tone, I thought that his points had great merit and he seemed to approach this discussion from a fairly scientific viewpoint. And he also did a pretty good job of remaining above the fray. Perhaps we all could learn a little bit from that example.
My take on the objectivists vs. the subjectivists is that there is quite a bit that is known about how humans perceive sound. And it is possible to measure many aspects of that perception. And so, there is good reason to study those measurements and learn from them.
However, I also believe that we have not finished learning about how sound is perceived. I am quite sure that 10 or 20 years hence, our understanding of how sound perception works will be *much* greater than it is today. And, who knows, perhaps we will discover new ways to measure that perception, thus increasing our knowledge of and appreciation for this miracle we call "hearing"...
-RW- Insert pithy Rodney King statement here...<g>
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