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In Reply to: RE: High end system sounds crap w/ Spotify premium downloaded music posted by mondial on September 14, 2020 at 19:46:23
"So how can he improve the sound of commercially downloaded music ?"
Don't download from Spotify or other services that use lossy compression.
Most mainstream services use lossy compression including Spotify, Apple Music and others.
You can stream high quality (lossless) music from Tidal and Qobuz, and you can download tunes for offline playback.
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Thank you very much for the tip Abe , my friend was really upset / disappointed when he was downloading it from Apple & Spotify .
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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