Oh Ye of Little Format
Tonight our group of 13 people held a blind A/B/C test comparing
Formats of CD, SACD and Apple Sound.
We listened to one minute three formats of five different cuts
ranging from Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Santana
Celine Dion, & one other.
The cuts were removed from the same CD using different layers.
Bottom line- Nobody zeroed in on anything! The Apple Sound actually
was slightly the favorite. Try it yourself.
Sound leveling software was employed and were the services
of sound engineer.
I always thought SACDs were nothing special.
Now if an XRCD had been included I think it would have been preferred
but you can perform the same test using XRCD due to the way
it is recorded.
The fun never stops here...
