According to recent research done specifically on high school aged students listening preferences conducted at Harman International the opposite is true: http://seanolive.blogspot.com/2010/06/some-new-evidence-that...
"When all 12 trials were tabulated across all listeners, the high school students preferred the lossless CD format over the MP3 version in 67% of the trials (slide 16). The CD format was preferred in 145 of 216 trials (p<0.001)."
According to recent research done specifically on high school aged students listening preferences conducted at Harman International the opposite is true: http://seanolive.blogspot.com/2010/06/some-new-evidence-that...
"When all 12 trials were tabulated across all listeners, the high school students preferred the lossless CD format over the MP3 version in 67% of the trials (slide 16). The CD format was preferred in 145 of 216 trials (p<0.001)."