Hi,
>I would say no :). Lossless is mathematically lossless, which is useful >for storing purposes or manipulating the signal (our case). If you don't >use lossless then you are missing information. Example: MP3, which uses >psychoacoustics (among other things) to discard what a human may/cannot >hear, but must sound lossy to a cat (assuming we are reproducing the >sounds in a perfect chain with perfect speakers). some people might disagree here, but normally the human ear can't listen those frequencies :) cheers, G.