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I don't really understand how the lossy vs lossless argument turned into a chest-beating contest about whose ears are the best. The point of lossless audio com

I don't really understand how the lossy vs lossless argument turned into a chest-beating contest about whose ears are the best. The point of lossless audio compression is archiving - knowing that you can make a first-generation encoding of the audio you have stored for any new device or format in future. If you want to listen to your FLAC files, great, you're not losing anything by doing that - just don't try and tell me that it's an aesthetic choice that makes the slightest bit of difference to the experience.

taneq 8y ago
> I don't really understand how the lossy vs lossless argument turned into a chest-beating contest about whose ears are the best. It's just basic human nature. As soon as you say "you can't see/hear/taste/perceive the difference between X and Y" some dick-waver will come in and start saying they can do it. And of course, the first to admit they can't hear a difference loses, and then you end up with things like Monster Cables, and the Emperor's new hi-fi setup. I've seen people seriously claim they can hear the difference between the same audio signal burned onto different brands of CD-Rs.