people on this forum 'made me upgrade'
If only that wasn't so true it'd be very very funny
I do think it's a very strange set of views surfacing on an audiophile board. I share some of them but find others to be quite inconsistent with much of the last few years of subjects covered.
For example, we've chased perfection via power cables, conditioners, interconnects, many other tweaks, not to mention DVD-A hi-res music which is orders of magnitude higher res that the lossy files described above.
That just doesn't stack up to me. I'm not at all suggesting that anyone claiming to not hear the difference is wrong. It's just that it should not be against a background of audiophilia and, as Doody suggests, throwing away bits is throwing away the music.
This is quite a dangerous time, should anyone's wife start reading this thread me thinks.....