A SHOCKING DISCOVERY ABOUT DIGITAL AUDIO

@kota1 

You stand alone in that rarified space, IDK what space, but you are alone in it.

That is EXACTLY what I wanted to hear. Thankyou. You are correct.

Nah, we are all going to save a lot of money and subscribe to lossy Spotify and praise the Swedes who own it and their infinite wisdom.

I have said that I can hear the difference between 320 kbps and wav. But the question is whether the rest of you can. If you can't then lossy spotify is fine for the rest of you. 

Come on, even the OP has to know that you can't throw out nearly 60% of the information in a file and expect it to be "bit perfect

These high rez files are mostly a scam.Where are spotify and Tidal getting hold of all these high rez recordings? The Master recordings were probably all cd quality. Where is the evidence the recordings were done using ultra high bandwidth microphones, analogue/ digital gear? 

Answer this one: When you heard this difference, what speakers were you listening through?

That is the shocking thing. You won't believe me but I was using a cheap pair of earbuds. Not speakers. I expect I would still hear the difference with speakers but I did not try.