Damarus

You can read up on my setup on the other comments. As an Audio Engineer you should know better or come with proofs.

Prove it

Of course there technically is a difference, you can easily see it with any tool that can render a spectrogram. Humans cannot hear this difference though, so there is no point in streaming the extra data.

What equipment do you have? My main setup is a Motu M4 with two Adam Audio T5V and multi point room correction done in REW. For headphones I'm mostly using DT 770 Pro 80 Ohm (there's different drivers depending on the impedance and these sound warmer). I also have a sizeable collection of IEMs with ratings up to a B on the crin list.

I can hear sounds up to about 16k. I'm allergic to bad audio. I cannot differentiate good lossy encodes from lossless audio.

So in other words you may as well have guessed randomly and gotten the same result. I'm against lossless streaming because my bandwidth is a limited resource and it will take longer to load the same track with higher bitrate. As there is no audible difference, there is also no practical reason to choose it.

Which is filled to the brim with snake oil advertisers who want to separate gullible people from their money.

Sounds like you just want it because it is possible. If that's the case, I'm fine with that. There is however no perceptible difference in sound, ABX tests showed that many times.

You can hear a difference between 320 kbps mp3/aac/vorbis and lossless? Can you prove that with an ABX test?