Yeah, of course.

When I purchase song, it comes as FLAC.
Can’t be bothered to convert it, so just use it as is. Storage is fairly cheap anyway compared to all the money I spent for the gear.

Important to mention that it’s not just the audio file that contributes to what you’re hearing.

It’s the listening environment, your headphones/speakers, the quality of the recording/post production, and your overall familiarity with the small details of the song.

If I’m listening with my IEM’s while walking my dog outside and there’s environmental noise and the music isn’t getting my absolute undivided attention, then I probably won’t hear the difference between MP3 and FLAC.

But when I’m giving the music my undivided attention and listening in my silent room with my HD800s, I can absolutely hear the difference with well produced albums. It’s very marginal, but it’s noticeable.

On my phone I’m fine with 256 kbps AAC files. On my desktop and on my iPad, I download 24 bit lossless files since it’s on those devices where I’m most likely to use a wired connection.

Yes, but because I’m downloading anyways. I lower quality if it’s a long song and don’t really like it that much

I can tell the difference. Granted, I think it largely depends on the music compositions themselves.And even then, admittedly, it’s not a HUGE OMG WOW difference even when it’s FLAC. But it’s at the very least cleaner sounding IMO.

Yes, then I convert to opus 255kbps and delete the og file.

I use at home 16bit/44,1khz FLAC and on the go 270vbr MP3

Technically yeah I guess. I download everything in 320kbps onto my DAP because it only supports up to 256gb. It’s pretty convenient tbh, I drop like 30 new albums in and it takes about 10 minutes for it all to transfer.