> Maybe not "none", but certainly it's only the very, very rare individual. Maybe not none, but to my knowledge we have not found one single individual is the

> Maybe not "none", but certainly it's only the very, very rare individual. Maybe not none, but to my knowledge we have not found one single individual is the world who actually have these "golden ears". At some point absense of evidence is actually evidence of absense. > I used to rage at the people who insisted on 320bps MP3's bps and compression is a separate issue. Lossy formats don't represent the audible spectrum (up to 22050Hz or 24kHz) literally 100% accurately, but non-lossy do. Edit: Oh, and keep in mind that now that you (as you say) are older, not only are you maybe less passionate about the issue, but also your ears aren't what they used to be.