brady7 wrote: > Spotify at the highest quality is 320kbps, right? Is casting spotify > from my iphone to a chromecast (as opposed to playing directly from > iphone) giving me less than 320kbps? When I compare spotify via > iphone>chromecast to cd or my own flac rips (via the same dac), the > difference is sometimes noticeable. Obviously different masterings can > cause this, but I'm hearing it where I think it's the same mastering. > > Thanks The post below suggest a down sample to 256kb/s or less. I did some searches long time ago and if i remember correctly, when casting from the phone, spotify establishes a direct connection to a chromecast device and then quality is decreased.
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Chromecast-Bitrate/td-p/1511549 Can't comment how up to date this info is. George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Denon AVRS530BT -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter OnePlus3 -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro, NAD Viso 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, NUC and Synology 1 Bay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110230 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
