And yet for all practical purposes MP3 is indistinguishable from Redbook CD by a panel of expert listeners in controlled blind tests.
And what does that statement really mean? Yeah, if the source files burned to the Redbook CD were mp3 to begin with playing an mp3 directly or burning to CD is indistinguishable. So what? If burning a lossless file to CD you certainly can distinguish that from an mp3!