How old do you think I am? lol
Also, about your bolded point, that's a good one and thank you. I did read it in fact, but didn't have time to respond yet.
"If you need to know, I find that the smallest details are more audible and probably a bit more sparkly, the clarity of the audio really shines and the textural goodness of my music genres of preference (glitch (hop), IDM, etc) give me just that extra thrill when I truly hear those tiniest details to their fullest. That when I hear Amon Tobin's crazy environmental pops and clicks and guitar plucks, they just feel like they are truly reachable, real, texutral and delicious."
Those are definitely the more minute details usually audible in tracks, but it confuses me as I'm able to hear those minute detail with MP3 encodings much lower than 256kbps. Their "texture" and "sparkle" are certainly diminished at around 150kbps, but often times when I hear a minute artifact I think is present in a lower-bitrate file, I listen to the FLAC and it's actually an artifact from the original recording. Texture and sparkle themselves are very inaccurate words that audiophiles like us would use to give a general idea, and they work great for generalities; but my point in this thread has been about the specificities and small details.