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whilst few people old enough to be able to afford this
sort of kit can hear the full range of frequencies
present on a CD, let alone anything supposedly
"better".

Yes I have proved that point, as I found that my
daughter could quite easily distinguish between 16/44
and 24/96 flac music files when played via my hifi,
where as I struggle to do this.

How was one of the files produced from the other?

More to the point, how were the issues of time synch,
level match, and listener bias dealt with?

The two pairs of files that I used play at the same
level, and were played one after the other.

I did not explain what the difference might be or even
why there might be a difference in advance.

Sighted evaluations are well-known to be useless for this kind of
comparisons.

Doing blind tests like thos one is not rocket science - it can be done on
any PC with a audio interface capable of 24/96 using free software that is
on the web. I was just testing a software ABX/ABC/hr comparator that was
written in Java, and therefore can run on any machine that supports the Sun
R6 Java run time support - which is an enormous range of operating systems
from Win7 to Mac to *nix.