@thor I know a self proclaimed audiophile who refuses to listen to anything other than flac... but he uses 40 dollar earbuds
@vriska@lizards.live @thor@pl.thj.no tbh I can usually feel a difference between a decently encoded mp3 file and a lossless encode on my 10$ earbuds, but it isn't that much of a difference, and these earbuds punch way above 10$.
i usually store music as flac, but that is for archival purposes. some time ago i tested at which bitrate i could hear artifacts with opus, iirc it was around 64kbps. opus is really an amazing codec :)