I tried the lossless audio test and couldn't believe my ears. Can you really tell the difference between lossless audio and plain old MP3 versions of your favorite tunes?

• A simple test can see how well you can recognize lossy formats using your own music choices
• Beyond a certain point most people can't easily tell the difference
• High-quality lossless is still the most future-proof format

With music, how good is good enough? When you're listening to digital music, what you hear depends on the original master, the file format and most of all, whether it's lossy — reducing the sound quality to reduce file sizes — or lossless, which is pristine and perfect. If you're serious about sound, lossless is going to defeat lossless every time.

Right?

Perhaps not.

On the r/audiophile subreddit, a user called vlad1m1r has shared ...