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Yarp. Outside of a few niche digital formats like FLAC, you will get loss in quality. Even these formats are still techmically compressing the waves and therefore creating minute amounts of distortion after decompression. It will never compare to analogue sound though.

Best you can do is get an external DAC (digital-analogue converter) to more efficiently convert those 1s and 0s to a decompressed sinusoidal waveform.

I find it extremely hard to explain to people the difference between a digital spotify streaming experience, an analogue vinyl record, and the sound of music while you're sitting in the middle of an orchestral band playing your instrument completely surrounded by a sound you can tangibly feel. They are completely different. You don't know until you experience it.

I'm not an audiophile who knows everything about file formats, but I can play several woodwinds competently, and I know nothing compares to that sensation of sound and vibration that runs through your whole body while playing/listening to the music you and dozens of other people are creating together. Addicting like a drug, man.

AAC is not compressed from CD quality bit rate, illiterate imbecile.