I am curious how many hikers use lossy vs lossless files for their MP3 players.

Perhaps because I am at home with my Meridian system only 5 months per year and rely on my MP3 the other 7 months, I am unusually biased and want the best possible portable sound, so I would not consider lossy files. It seems to me with the continuing rapid fall of the cost of memory, there is no longer a compelling financial reason to compromise with less than the best sound. It means that the Sooloos system with lossy MP3 downloads to a player is not acceptable to me.

If anyone is interested in this thread who knows how to set up a poll, I would find that very interesting.

Home: DSP8000's, DSP5500HC, DSP5200's, 861v6>v8+ID41, MC200, HD621.
Oppo BDP-83, Kuro PDP-6020FD, Sennheiser HD650.
Hawaii: Meridian F80 with i80, iPod Classic 160GB.