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RE: "So how can he improve the sound of commercially downloaded music ?"

My kids all use Spotify, and when one was playing "September" by EW&F one time, streaming over Airplay to my kitchen RPi setup, I pulled a little trick by streaming the same track from Qobuz, which happens to be in 24/96, and interrupted her stream. She was amazed to hear how much better it sounded, deeper bass, clarity in the vocals.

She still uses Spotify because everyone has the impression that it has everything, but I have yet to not find something I want on Qobuz. I told her to download it and try since it is already paid for but she still isn't interested. There are other aspects of Spotify that she likes, mostly in discovery and sharing.

Oh also, I gave her a setup for her car consisting of a camera adapter and ExtremPro X1 DAC (like a Dragonfly) and she didn't think it sounded as good as my setup, except I was using Qobuz when she heard it and she used Spotify. But she also had some problem with it. I'm going to try hers out today in my car to see if there is really something wrong.



Edits: 09/15/20

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