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human
ELI5: How can audiophiles tell the difference between an max quality MP3 and a FLAC file just by their ears?

When you use a computer to analyze the compression factor in a file it's very obvious that there are lots of frequencies lost. But, in real life can audiophile people really spot the difference just by their plain ears?

Edit: it seems I'm dyslexic.
gpt
They can't is the short answer. But people like to convince themselves they can if they have bought a bunch of expensive audio equipment and spent time converting their audio to flac.

Saying that hard drive space is so cheap you may as well use flac and transcode it if needed on your portable player.