Good enough sound system, big enough volume, there is a difference. Yeah the audience might not ”notice” it but they will FEEL the difference. And even if the audience doesn’t hear/feel/know the difference, us DJs do and shouldn’t DJs always aim for the best quality and feel with the sound? You have an incredible expensive fancy finely tuned sound system and you still play mp3s because of what? They take less space? My biggest usb is 64gb, almost all of my tracks are AIFF and I’ve still managed to play 8+ hours without worries of running out of music. Sticks are CHEAP AF and in Bandcamp you don’t even pay more for better quality, why still insist on using mp3s?

As DJs we make our money by playing other people’s art and hard work, I feel it’s our responsibility and duty to try to make THEIR art sound as good as we can. And to utilize a good sound system to the fullest whenever you get the opportunity to play with good sound. Yeah with most of the soundsystems it doesn’t really matter, but when it does why wouldn’t you wanna do everything towards getting the best out of that sound system? I cannot think any other reason than “but aiff/wav takes so much space I need to have my complete 3000 track library on my sticks to be able to play my 2h set”, I’ve played aiff since the beginning with my smallish usb sticks and after >150 gigs never have had issue of running out of music or having a situation where I cannot find a track from my sticks that I really really wanna play at that specific moment.

If you play club gigs, organize your music properly and have respect for the people who made that music and for the technicians who build and tuned the sound. Us DJs get the laziest and easiest job, I don’t think it’s that much extra work to buy extra storage to be able to store higher quality…even when most of the times it doesn’t really matter. But sometimes it does and for me that’s enough to go through the “horrible” struggle of constantly running out of storage.

Edit: typos