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If you can't hear the difference between 320K and lossless, your DAC is the reason. A decent DAC like John Kenny's Ciunas will be a revelation so.
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Tidal also a shill company for siphoning off loads of money to Kanye West and Beyonce via vastly overcooked streaming numbers, resulting in fraud investigations and court action? Also yes.
Oh if that were only true......
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I've worked with people who designed hifi for Sony and B&O and helped to design the MPEG codecs and they couldn't.
I'm quite happy with 320K mp3 but in the right environment you can certainly hear the difference between 320 file and a wav, in fact you can hear the difference between the 24 \ 48 mulitrack and the 16 \ 44.4 bounce. When I was running the studio we got into this stuff and during blind testing all of us could pick the correct files but that was in a soundproof, treated control room where you could hear your heart beating if everyone shut up breathing loudly.
What also helps is knowing what to listen for, the tails of the cymbals are one thing that can be spotted quite reliably depending on the material. Another things that helps is familiarity with the source material. When you have been mixing a record for 8 hours you get so familiar with it you can tell when it's been trunc'ed down to 16 bit and you can tell when it's been converted from the 16 \ 44 to a 320 MP3 but in real life just listening to causal music I doubt very much I could tell.
@monquixote I think the opportunity to listen to some pre masters would be great, as in a bounce of the multitrack before it was brickwalled in mastering. There's so many great albums I would pay for in that format.
The whole test one, then test two or random one or two idea is a waste of time. It merely tests the listener and not the technology. Setup the 'better' (in this case) DAC and listen to the output for a couple of weeks. Then insert the lesser product. If you are like me, you go 'WTF is the music gone to?'
Then you know why I wrote what I wrote.
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I also have an Apple Music family account, but I use Tidal HD with my Hifi streamer. There is a huge difference in quality between the two.