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Is Spotify good enough? (Sennheiser HD 650 + Qudelix-5k) (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Me_JuJu_@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community

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I recently ordered the HD 650s and the Qudilex-5K and was wondering if Spotify's audio quality will be a good enough music source for my untrained ears. This is my first audiophile setup.

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[–] Mobile-Koala1663@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

Take that. 128kbps are supposedly dogshit tier, unlistenable encodings if you believe the bozos around here. How many can you pick out with your setup?

I'd bet 80% of the bozos here who like to think they have golden ears couldn't pick the wav for any of these without getting lucky.

[–] userIoser@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Some of these are bad samples to test, you need music with "lots of things going on at the same time" - that's where 128kbps compression would be noticeable