Is FLAC a meme?

Nah.
FLAC is pretty good, it doesn’t take up that much space honestly and you can always convert to your own lossy format of choice (I convert to Vorbis for my shitty Sandisk,)

FLAC is far better than AAC / MP3. It could be distinguished easily by just listening to it.

i'd like to use vorbis but
>a lot more stuff can play flac but not vorbis surprisingly
>flac is better for having a master copy (you don't want to convert lossy to lossy ever)
i've never A-B tested flac and vorbis/mp3
i know i can definitely tell anything vs youtube apart, but that's a given
sansa clips aren't shitty, smack rockbox on there and it's bitchin

Even using cheap headphones it could have a huge difference.

i can tell youtube vs anything easily because youtube is fucking 192kbps, probably a lot of people could tell if they focused

>low frequencies are heard, not felt
kill yourself

i will

then feel free to do some abx test and post results

as an archival format that you should reasonably be using? no.
as something that will give you superior sound quality to lossy formats with a high enough bitrate? yes.

CD : 1411.2 kpbs
FLAC : 900 kpbs
AAC : 256 kpbs
MP3 : 320 kpbs (but still AAC's decoder is written by APPLE, so it's superior)

But you still need to have original lossless audio(CD, Vinyl or Bandcamp).