Quote Originally Posted by Symmetric
Are you guys serious?
Listen, really listen to an MP3, even at 320kbps, and the original .wav on a GOOD system or headphones.
There's a difference. Compressed files are inferior to uncompressed. You can hear it in the hi-hats. Everything above 4KHz is brittle, even with the best codecs.
I'm not the only person on this forum with good enough ears to discern the difference, am I?
If, and this is extremely unlikely on any system, you could hear a discernible difference between a 320kbps Mp3 and a WAV you would be unable to tell which was "better".

And even if you have steve austin ears, you are in the 0.000001% of the population who can hear these frequencies. Or even care. Most people happily listen to shite. You have to train you ear to even notice the difference.