Unpopular Opinion
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128 bits mp3 sure, 160 bits mp3 too, 256 bits mp3 on an okay setup why not, 320bits mp3 no way Jose.
Are you also hearing the difference with gold cables and all that audiofoolery stuff?
No actually i cannot tell the difference at all between 128kbps thru 320kbps but 320kbps sounds very different from flac lossless. Keep in mind the encoding used in the old days were very bad because it used to take more time to encode with old hardware so they used fast compression (kinda like how video encoding uses fast for encoding live streaming but it looks horrendous compared to slow encoding for non-live Youtube)
Modern high quality 128kbps encoding sounds the same as 320k
Now you're just grabbing at straws. Back in the day you didn't encode to 320bps because your usb-player held like 64MB.
Also no, todays 128bps does not sound lossless, 320bps do. Try it out to see for yourself! From a nice wav or flac ofc.