People can hear the difference in high resolution audio

Many in the music industry have been split as to whether people can really hear a difference between CD quality music and high resolution audio -- even celebrity musicians have entered the fray with new music streaming services: Tidal launched by Jay-Z and Pono players and music service spearheaded by Neil Young and crowd funded through a Kickstarter campaign.

Both streaming services launched in the last two years have been met with scepticism. However, this new study found that listeners can tell the difference between low and high resolution audio formats, and the effect is dramatically increased with training: trained test subjects could distinguish between the formats around sixty per cent of the time.

Read the complete article from Queen Mary University of London here: People can hear the difference in high resolution audio, study finds

The full text journal article can be found here: A Meta-Analysis of High Resolution Audio Perceptual Evaluation