To reassure most people a more startling difference exists, for example, between the song 'Dreams' by Fleetwood Mac as it appears on the the original 'Rumours' CD than the copy of it that appears on Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits. The first is sweet, mellow, warm and lovely, the latter sounds like a treble mess in comparison. The differences between AAC and Apple Lossless are genuinely inconsequential in comparison to this type of problem. I would choose to listen to a 128K AAC cut from the former before I'd listen to an Apple Lossless cut from the latter disc.
Furthermore, I think audiophiles are a whole difference species of music listener who will quite happily spend the night arguing the difference between different widths of speaker cable, so this falls into the same realm as far as I'm concerened. Audiophiles hear all kinds of differences which generally is put down to tone and presence. Let's be clear the differences are exactly that and not as I did declare in my original post artifacts. Really the difference between 128K AAC and Apple Lossless would be less than the difference between the cheap cable you have on your hi-fi and a set of gold monster cables that cost more than the stereo...all of these factors change the sound. In the end the sound you like is the right sound!.
In the end the choice is a personal one and it always will be. I will gladly concede that the difference is truly imperceptible in my car or my ipod earphones
Furthermore, I think audiophiles are a whole difference species of music listener who will quite happily spend the night arguing the difference between different widths of speaker cable, so this falls into the same realm as far as I'm concerened. Audiophiles hear all kinds of differences which generally is put down to tone and presence. Let's be clear the differences are exactly that and not as I did declare in my original post artifacts. Really the difference between 128K AAC and Apple Lossless would be less than the difference between the cheap cable you have on your hi-fi and a set of gold monster cables that cost more than the stereo...all of these factors change the sound. In the end the sound you like is the right sound!.
In the end the choice is a personal one and it always will be. I will gladly concede that the difference is truly imperceptible in my car or my ipod earphones