While I wouldn't really call myself an audiophile, I would say that I've had exposure to excellent hifi systems and have been producing and working with audio/music since I was a teenager.
I've also never been able to reliably pick out between lossy and lossless formats, especially at the fidelity that streaming services generally stream at (not the data saver version). If I listen extremely closely and repeatedly to the same section of music, I usually can hear a difference, but it's only under those conditions where that's the case. Even then, I've gotten some of those wrong.
So when I see articles like this, I just can't help but roll my eyes a bit. It seems asinine to give up the actual killer feature he cares about in the music suggestions for something that is likely imperceptible, even to a self proclaimed audio nerd.
I've also never been able to reliably pick out between lossy and lossless formats, especially at the fidelity that streaming services generally stream at (not the data saver version). If I listen extremely closely and repeatedly to the same section of music, I usually can hear a difference, but it's only under those conditions where that's the case. Even then, I've gotten some of those wrong.
So when I see articles like this, I just can't help but roll my eyes a bit. It seems asinine to give up the actual killer feature he cares about in the music suggestions for something that is likely imperceptible, even to a self proclaimed audio nerd.