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Spotify Is Testing a Lossless Subscription Tier For $15 to $20 Per Month (techcrunch.com)
Spotify is seemingly preparing to launch a lossless audio version of its streaming service. The offering, which is currently called Spotify Hi-Fi, will offer lossless CD-quality audio to users -- similar to what Tidal offers in its Hi-Fi service. From a report: For an extra $5 to $10, you could get all the features in Spotify Premium as well as lossless high fidelity streaming. There could also be a couple of new features. What is lossless quality anyway? Currently, if you go into Spotify's settings and choose the highest quality, Spotify serves you 320kbps audio files. It's very high quality, but it's not perfect -- in other words, it's a compromise. This way, files are still quite small and load quickly. Lossless files are perfect copies of the songs on an audio CD. They are then compressed, but without any quality loss.
You are an idiot. Compression doesn't destroy the frequency RANGE, which is all you have "proved" you can hear. The fact that you are so focused on range, enough to have tested yourself and say you wont buy anything but lossless is hilarious. I would almost buy your argument for lossless if you had talked about being able to actually discern differences but your range about frequency range proves that you are a moron that thinks he is special.
I too can hear all the electronics buzzing in my house. I can hear the difference between low quality and high quality audio but I can't, and no one has been able to in a blind test, identify the higher quality source between 320 and lossless.