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You mean quantized, snapped-to-the-grid instrumental music? Sigh.
there is plenty of non-quantized instrumental music if you're willing to look, and even then dismissing all music doesn't forego a strict grid (which in the modern day is simply a choice and artist can choose to make) is dismissing a massive body of work just because it doesn't use a technique that you like
Dude/Dudette, it was just a gag comment. Not only am I not really dismissing a massive body of work just because it uses quantization, as someone who's spent more than half his life writing software synthesis applications, I've literally made a career out of quantization.
That being said, music that is not quantized definitely has a more natural feel to it, although putting that "feel" into sequencing software is surprisingly difficult.
As a treble lover, I tend to have problems with low bitrate and lossily compressed stuff.
But from what I have ~~seen~~ heard, as long as the quanta are fine enough, the resultant regenerated audio tends to be close enough to the original. Of course, the components of the sound card matter, when you get to extreme clarity levels, but I guess my ears are not fine enough for that.