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Why in tarnation do people use Spotify? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by superglue_chute115@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community
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I don't understand why people buy these nice and expensive headphones only to use Spotify, arguably the worst quality music streaming service that exists. It sounds so bad compared to Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, or even Napster. At least you are getting lossless sound with those, it won't be the same as having a ripped flac from a CD but anything is better than the AAC 128/320kbps that Spotify offers. It just bothers me when I see photos of headphones on this sub and then they have Spotify open in the background, I just can't understand!

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[–] snake2243@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

This hobby is subjective, but sometimes I get bamboozled when I see someone doing a review with a high tier equipment and use spotify.

Spotify is pretty trash from what I hear on my end. I am suprised you even mention youtube music. spotify blows youtube music out the water, that said, spotify still trash.

I use tidal, but for the past 2 years, I just purchase the flac files on bandcamp. Once I got into using roon, I never wanted to go back to using any other music listening software

[–] sounds_international@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you done blind tests on the sound quality with your equipment?

[–] snake2243@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yes I have, if your about to refer to that website, I am going to jist say rite now, that website is not the best enviroment for doing a a.b test.

Your windows is getting ahold of the data before it makes to the dac. Makes doing a/b tests harder and more exhausting.

But yes, I have done real a/b tests in controlled enviroments where its just the audio, not being altered/filtered though anything but my equipment.

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