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NomDePlume007 t1_isu13og wrote

Spotify streaming is not usually very high fidelity, but if you find it bothersome, try out a service that offers higher quality streams. I liked Tidal myself, but there are others out there.

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AnOldMoth t1_isw9ykc wrote

Untrue, Spotify is imperceptibly similar to FLAC in most cases. The extreme, extreme majority of audiophile-types have no need for anything else.

You can learn to hear the differences if you're trained to do so, on top of having an extremely high-end headphone, but unless you're doing this, you will not hear any differences you are not just imagining.

https://abx.digitalfeed.net/

If you want to test yourself. If you can consistently get 80% or higher, you can hear the difference between the file-types (I've met a couple who can do this pretty well), but there's an extremely high chance you won't.

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