What I like the most are vinyls, but to be honest, I only listen to them extremely rarely so I don't think I could vote for it with a clean conscience. My second choice in the list is the ogg format. The reason is simple .. it's good (although the real difference in quality between the popular lossy formats is mostly detectable at lower BRs) and it's open source and free. Any media player can support it and so I think those who appreciate free lossy formats should as well.
The worth of lossless formats is greatly exaggerated. You need really good ears and equipment to identify better qualities at the standard BRs today and even then, reliably identifying the higher bitrates when you get to high quality lossys and up to lossless is not something I've seen or read about anyone doing. I've only seen and read about people who fail at it and know from testing that I'm no better.
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