Pick up a high-resolution digital audio player (DAP) and you can have your cake and eat it, too. Lossy formats such as that strip music of its dynamics, detail, and vitality.
Many of us have sacrificed fidelity in pursuit of convenience and portability, adopting inferior audio codecs such as MP3 and making them our new benchmarks. While TVs have become better and better over the past 15 years, audio has taken several steps backwards.
