“If you’re passionate about music, you’ll hear the difference” – Apple’s lossless audio claims have riled our readers

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This week, one of the hot-button topics among audiophiles and general music fans has, without a doubt, been Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music, suggesting “most people” can’t hear the difference with lossless audio.

Why do we say this, on what to many may be a seemingly innocuous claim? I mean, how many people even know what lossless audio is, right?