Apple Launching Lossless Music Subscription Service?

Lossless is not possible. Close if masters were digital, but analog masters, NO way. Just my opinion...

Is their audience those that listen in their Apple device with Apple earbuds?
until we can stream it natively on all the popular streamers, it’s just a misuse of bandwidth. 

Amazon licensed it to Paradigm or whatever they are calling themselves these days (NAD, Paradigm, Bluesound, etc.)   Otherwise you need to hang a DAC off a laptop/PC.

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Lossless is not possible. Close if masters were digital, but analog masters, NO way. Just my opinion...

Huh? It is trivially easy to make a bit perfect copy of any digital file, and that's the definition of "lossless."

As for making a digital copy of an analog master: I encourage you to experiment for yourself sometime. Many have been surprised by the results.

If you think it's possible to make a bit perfect copy trivially, I'm happy for you. If you take a look at all of the raw data of both D to D files, some bits are corrupt. I have experimented with A to D, not to say it's bad at all, very good, just not lossless.