The main appeal of lossless, as I see it, is freedom - to reencode, transmit, store, transform audio (music) as you please, without any worry of loss. I'm not s

The main appeal of lossless, as I see it, is freedom - to reencode, transmit, store, transform audio (music) as you please, without any worry of loss. I'm not stuck with FLAC - I can use any fancy, new or old format and get the same music. I can create lossy MP3s, OGGs or anything else at a variety of bitrates appropriate for the case. Once you do lossless -> lossy, you're "stuck", unless you accept reencoding artifacts and those do add up to eventually be bad. I'm an audio enthusiast, have quality (but not excessive, triple digit prices) DACs, amps and everything else. I can't ABX 256kbps+ MP3s from lossless, but the above stands.