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Don't waste any time or money buying "new and improved" super audio
reissues of your old CD's.

Incontrovertible double-blind listening tests prove that the original
16-bit/44.1-kHz CD standard yields exactly the same two-channel sound
quality as the SACD and DVD-A technologies.

In the September 2007 issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering
Society (Volume 55, Number 9), two veteran audio journalists who
aren't professional engineers, E. Brad Meyer and David R. Moran,
present a breakthrough paper that contradicts all previous inputs by
the engineering community. They prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, with
literally hundreds of double-blind listening tests at matched levels,
conducted over a period of more than a year, that the two-channel
analog output of a high-end SACD/DVD-A player undergoes no audible
change when passed through a 16-bit/44.1-kHz A/D/A processor. That
means there's no audible difference between the original CD standard
("Red Book") and 24-bit/192-kHz PCM or 1-bit/2.8442-MHz DSD.