Below is from Apple. Apple Music's Lossless tier starts at CD quality, which is 16 bit at 44.1 kHz, and goes up to 24 bit at 48 kHz and is playable natively on Apple devices. ... For the true audiophile, Apple Music also offers Hi-Resolution Lossless all the way up to 24 bit at...
PC Gaming is sort-of heading to a upscale future, and I feel like music could head in the same direction. Do I prefer FLACs (and other lossless formats), Yes, but if Im stuck with MP3s might as well through some DSP at it, its lossy anyways. Been around ASR since the...
lossy formats with a good enough compression algorithm and a high decent bitrate can send distortion to objectively inaudible levels, hence why people have repeatedly failed to A/B 320 kbps AAC encoded by Apple's latest encoders from lossless formats in blind tests. In r...