Spotify Hi-Fi lossless is (finally) here!

Woop it finally arrived for me.

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I got it a couple of days ago and not overly impressed to be honest. It's better than Very High, but not as good quality as Apple Music or Tidal in my opinion.
 
To be honest unless I'm specifically listening to a tune I don't really notice the difference between very high and any of the lossless services including Spotify.
 
Yeah I think there is a difference, but very subtle. Track dependant as well. I do like to think I have a good ear, especially being musical (play guitar) so I pickup a lot of stuff by listening. The kit I use is good quality too which helps. But if you are not paying attention then yeah, not really noticeable. I've left it on for now just because it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling knowing it is set as high as possible haha. :cry:
 
So am I right in saying this is pointless to use on an iPhone with bluetooth B&O headphones but it is worth doing on my MacBook Pro if I use a jack cable?

Probably also pointless on my Dennon AV AMP as I doubt that supports it via the built in Spotify app.
 
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Barks said:
So am I right in saying this is pointless to use on an iPhone with bluetooth B&O headphones but it is worth doing on my MacBook Pro if I use a jack cable?

Probably also pointless on my Dennon AV AMP as I doubt that supports it via the built in Spotify app.
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The iPhone AAC Bluetooth codec would be the bottleneck here. You should notice a slight difference when using a jack, depending on the song. Under critical listening, you might notice some extra clarity.
 
Barks said:
So am I right in saying this is pointless to use on an iPhone with bluetooth B&O headphones but it is worth doing on my MacBook Pro if I use a jack cable?

Probably also pointless on my Dennon AV AMP as I doubt that supports it via the built in Spotify app.
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Your Denon should support it if it’s fairly recent , my 4800 does
 
wez68 said:
Your Denon should support it if it’s fairly recent , my 4800 does
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Mine is from 2022. It doesn’t appear to support it at the moment but I’ve got my fingers crossed as it appears they’re still rolling out firmware updates.
 
wez68 said:
Your Denon should support it if it’s fairly recent , my 4800 does
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It works you’re right!!!!

It clearly says on the Info from within the Spotify Connect App “Signal: FLAC” instead of just PCM when you play standard quality.

I had asked Chat GPT to research it and it said it wasn’t possible hence my first reply. Yet again another example of how AI is useless.
 
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Wow the difference is incredible! Didn’t notice this on my B&O headphones so the Bluetooth limitations definitely are an issue. Haven’t tried them via jack cable yet.
 
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