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At the dinner table, Sheldon listens to a classical music piece on his headphones. He suddenly winces, pulls them off, and declares, “There’s audible compression artifact at 2:47. We’ve been living a lie.”

Sheldon learns about FLAC — a lossless audio format that preserves every detail of the original recording. He becomes convinced that the family’s collection of MP3s (and even their CDs) is an insult to the composers. He insists the family needs to re-rip all their music into FLAC. young sheldon s07e10 flac

Sheldon makes a presentation to the family, arguing that FLAC is a “moral imperative.” Mary sighs and says, “Sheldon, we love you, but we can’t hear the difference.” Sheldon, frustrated, plays a blind test for the family using his favorite vinyl recording of Beethoven’s 5th. To his horror, no one — not even he — can reliably tell FLAC from a high-bitrate MP3 in a double-blind test. At the dinner table, Sheldon listens to a