I recently wrote that you shouldn’t have huge expectations about sound quality improvements when upgrading from Spotify Premium to the upcoming lossless HiFi tier. The gist of it is that the vast majority of people — including audio enthusiasts — cannot tell the difference between lossless audio and ‘lossy’ encoded at a high enough bitrate audio. But that argument makes one important assumption: you are already listening to Spotify Premium with optimal settings. The highest bitrate supported by the streaming platform is 320 kbps, which should be largely indistinguishable from lossless, but in most cases, the streaming app does not…
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