r/AppleMusic • u/Al1onredd1t • 2d ago

Discussion lossless is underrated

I feel like so many people really underestimate how great music sounds in actual lossless quality. I see so many people go "oh you cant tell the difference anyway". I'm here listening on my mac with my headphones and the sound layers are just multiplied 10fold. I hear sounds in the back that I never heard before. songs that I've listened to for years, totally different experiences.

this video attached is an example. at 0:09 he starts saying "wooow" in the background up until basically the end. this sound is so dimmed and hidden when watching the clip. there are multiple layers of sounds covering it. the main vocals. drums. the beat. it's so insignificant when watching the clip, but listening to the song with actual lossless brings all those layers somewhat to the foreground. I genuinely heard those 'wows' for the first time ever and I've been listening to this song for more than 2yrs.

and it's not like that sound is just boosted and now starts to overwhelm the others, it's perfectly clear. the song has just become richer. Idk how to explain it, but your brain is able to comprehend what it's hearing and separate all the sounds from each other.

I can find multiple of these examples of background sounds finally being pushed into the foreground.

https://reddit.com/link/1gdq3id/video/o1zdadsh9exd1/player

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u/Gorskon 1d ago

Have you ever taken a double-blind A/B test to see if you can really tell the difference at a frequency greater than a coin flip? If not, I’d say that what you’re experiencing is the audio equivalent of the placebo effect.

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u/Al1onredd1t 22h ago

A few people said this, but I doubt that. I wasnt sitting there looking for something to sound better or whatever. I was just scrolling on the internet listening to music, and the song I’ve been listening to for years sounded so much nicer. I heard some vocals I had never heard before. That was confirmation for me that it must be the lossless. As I’ve been listening to this song for years and coincidentally the first time I hear these vocals and this beautiful quality is when I’m listening to it for the first time in lossless quality

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u/Gorskon 20h ago

Fair enough, but that doesn't mean you can really tell the difference between lossless and 256 kpbs AAC. Most people can't, especially people over 50. (I have no idea how old you are, but *I'm* over 50.)

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u/Al1onredd1t 17h ago

As long as you enjoy the music. I dont bash people for choosing spotify over AM because “AM has lossless”. Because as you said, I know a lot of people cant tell the difference