squeezophile;582034 Wrote:
> Would volume leveling settings in the Spotify menu affect the sound
> quality? I mean, I read that reducing the volume on the squeeze box
> results i a lower quality on the digital out because of the reduction
> of resolution when decoding.
> see:
> http://forums.slim
Would volume leveling settings in the Spotify menu affect the sound
quality? I mean, I read that reducing the volume on the squeeze box
results i a lower quality on the digital out because of the reduction
of resolution when decoding.
see:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77725&highl
pippin;581839 Wrote:
> Bitrate is just one quality parameter. Encoding quality is just as
> important.
> Are you sure Spotify does nothing to the mastering like dynamic
> compression as radio stations do them?
+1
Wonder if the labels, when providing music to spotify is giving them
some modern "
Bitrate is just one quality parameter. Encoding quality is just as
important.
Are you sure Spotify does nothing to the mastering like dynamic
compression as radio stations do them?
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I too have the impression that the soundquality of 320kbs OGG Spotify
isn't that great. I even think the few 256kbps AAC files I bought from
iTunes sound better. I'm not really an audiophile, but like good
quality. My music collection has been ripped to .flac files and think
it's hard to tell the
Some older Spotify tracks are still streamed at 160 kbps. That may be
some of your problem. It's the newer ones that are 320 kbps. For a
320 kbps track, you should be hearing a small difference on a revealing
system. If it's very large, then I would suspect a fault.
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I haven't used spotify, but it should be nearly impossible to tell the
difference between 320 kbps lossy and lossless. I think it might be
possible, but only for people that know exactly what compression
artifacts to listen for.
If you check out hydrogenaudio.com, there have been some extensive
Hi I use Spotify Premium and it sounds like 320 kps MP3/4s to me in
quality. Flacs, depending on compression level - which can still be
variable using something like DBpoweramp - will still run at probably
700kps-1100kps, and therein lies your audiable difference. It will not
be exponentially d
Recently i have a Spotify premium account and I am very satisfied about
it. To discover new music it,s second to none. But I am a bit of and
audiophile like most here, so I compared the sound quality to flac
files on my hard drive.
I discovered a big difference in sound quality. The Flac files s
