I’ve experimented with DACs, amps, expensive headphones, high-fidelity sound, (and more) in my search of the perfect listening experience. I value mine.As an avid Spotify user, I’m always looking at ways to improve my listening experience. Listening to DSD, high quality vinyl, SACD's or alike sound files is nearly heaven. Listening to HIFI audio (FLAC) at 1411 kbps is like being alive, while listening to OGG at 320 kbps or AAC 256 kbps is like being ill or getting older also its a complete waste of time. Is all up you in the end you people, not Spotify. In the end you own nothing and it is just mere streaming.

Actually Spotify Premium for USA users should cost no more than $6.99USD with HIFI audio included (properly adjusted rates to the rest of the world). If you are still not sure, how does Netflix survive if it streams Full HD & UHD video at $7.99USD? It’s perfectly possible. I will remind everyone we are now on 2017 (how far behind we need to get?) Old post here, but still useful: Īlso I think that real lossless audio quality should be offered to Premium users at no additional costs as part of the actual Premium subscriptions. Using Spotify Premium is like going back to Napster pirated songs quality from the same era (which was often even of better quality that as of today’s codec if original Mp3 German encoder was used).

Using TIDAL is like going back to the 90's as of sound quality. TIDAL offers real lossless HIFI audio (FLAC) at 1411 kbps, enough for most listening applications. But you should probably rename the post as neither AAC (at 256 kbps), OGG (at 320 kbps for Premium) or MP3 are HIFI codecs with lossless audio, they are lossy and usually very lossy.

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