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[ahofer]

I'm not believing that anyone can hear a difference between filters. Unless a filter is poorly designed or incorrectly implemented.

I’ve heard others assert that it is the one thing that *can* be heard, although commercially implemented filter differences probably remain in the realm of trained listeners.. At any rate, you can try here, and see the results of a large-scale preference test:

INTERNET BLIND TEST: Linear vs. Minimum Phase Upsampling Filters

A blog for audiophiles about more objective topics. Measurements of audio gear. Reasonable, realistic, no snakeoil assessment of sound, and equipment.

archimago.blogspot.com

 

[RandomEar]

I’ve heard others assert that it is the one thing that *can* be heard, although commercially implemented filter differences probably remain in the realm of trained listeners.. At any rate, you can try here, and see the results of a large-scale preference test:

INTERNET BLIND TEST: Linear vs. Minimum Phase Upsampling Filters

A blog for audiophiles about more objective topics. Measurements of audio gear. Reasonable, realistic, no snakeoil assessment of sound, and equipment.

archimago.blogspot.com

I think that the accepted audible differences between filters generally converge to "the treble roll-off of slow roll-off filters can be audible" with the added caveat that this is true only for 44.1 kHz material and maybe 48 kHz for teenagers and children.

There's certainly lots of audiophiles claiming to hear differences between linear and minimum phase filters or imagining the audibility of "that evil pre-ringing", but I haven't seen any proof that this is more than bias. The Archimago article you linked certainly supports that there isn't an obvious difference between them and that many people are highly confident in hearing differences while failing to actually identify the filters correctly.