I once spent ~2 hours explaining all of this (well maybe not all of it) to a friend of mine who was studying sound design at the time. He didn't believe me.
I even transcoded some 24/192 FLAC Pink Floyd I had lying around and made him do a double blind test to show him that he'd prefer the slightly louder song every time, even if the louder song was 192kbps vs the FLAC. He did. He still doesn't believe me.
He still thinks he can hear the difference between FLAC and MP3 to this day. He works as a sound engineer now.
I don't think any amount of reasoning will make some people change their minds. Some people buy $500 wooden knobs to make their volume pots sound better. (or was that a hoax? i can't tell anymore)
I even transcoded some 24/192 FLAC Pink Floyd I had lying around and made him do a double blind test to show him that he'd prefer the slightly louder song every time, even if the louder song was 192kbps vs the FLAC. He did. He still doesn't believe me.
He still thinks he can hear the difference between FLAC and MP3 to this day. He works as a sound engineer now.
I don't think any amount of reasoning will make some people change their minds. Some people buy $500 wooden knobs to make their volume pots sound better. (or was that a hoax? i can't tell anymore)