Well just to stick a dagger into the last surviving water cannistor in the desert, lol whatever that means; as a choice I'd prefer non-lossy music. Audiophiles also go this road. That means alternative formats. Problem is, mp3 players can generally only play mp3 formats (there's some exceptions) such as iPod & apple lossless. ok so the files are much larger, but they are identical to cd quality or aiff/wav extracted directly from cd. apple lossless is about 50-60% of the wav/aiff size. mp3's range between 10-25% of original size for b/w 128-320 kbps. Some music simply doesn't convert over to mp3 very well. mp3 knocks off the top frequency ranges, & maybe the bottom ones as well. It also removes a lot of the headroom when playing back on headphones. Try it. Listen to a song with a wide range of frequencies, lots of stereo separation, & then play an mp3 at either 128/320 kbps. I notice with some mp3 songs even at 320 kbps. I playback some music from the comp thru the speakers also (a 2nd set of speakers for this room.)

Okay some people are somewhat frequency deaf or are not experienced with head-room, but it matters for some like me.