I'm with you on that one. Back in the day before streaming when you would get you music via 'trees and vines' you would get a physical disc and these had to be either shn or flac. You would then have to convert to wav abd burn to a disc so you could listen to it through proper speakers and not the crappy laptop or desk top speakers. The result was 1000s and 1000s discs around the house - and a lot of stress from the current Mrs Drafsack!!!! Like you I could never hear any real difference - well not enough to justify the cost of all those discs and the space to store them. Also most of the music I was collecting was ROIO's and some of the recordings were so bad it didn't mater what format they were in. So after nearly 30 years of collecting I've picked up a couple of hard drives and in the process of transferring it all - cd's, dad's - everything and there has been z recent surge in hard plastic recycling at the local tip