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"We conducted subjective evaluation tests to study perceptual discrimination between musical sounds with and without very high frequency components (above 21 kHz). In order to conduct strict evaluation tests, the sound reproduction system used for these tests was designed to exclude any leakage or influence of very high frequency components in the audible frequency range. As a result, no significant difference was found between sounds with and without very high frequency components among the sound stimuli and the subjects. From these results, however, we can still neither confirm nor deny the possibility that some subjects could discriminate between musical sounds with and without very high frequency components. Nevertheless, the results also showed that the test system is entirely reliable, and that further evaluation tests using this test system will accurately show whether the very high frequency components in sound stimuli affect human recognition of sound quality. "