We may be easily fooled, but we're not fools for buying CD. It is audibly better than compressed formats, but you wouldn't be able to tell in a different room and different system which format it is.
People used to fooled 30+ years ago when an crappy speaker was masquerading as a real symphony. Today, we'd find that speaker to be obviously atrocious. But it still fooled people, just as a magician does. And that's what Dave Wilson did. Pulled a magic trick.