Poll: Poll: Can you disitinquish between lossless streaming services over Spotify and Apple Music?

[easyrider]

Yes

No

Can't tell the difference

 

[jpaul]

smart alec reply - is this a trick question ? though spotify premium was 320Kb/s vorbis and apple AAc 256kb/s;
though spoitfy were beta'ing a lossless product, but not yet released it, and that, at the moment TIDAL were the main lossless provider.
(Still on a tidal hifi free eval, where I think their Master 96/24 tracks sound better than non-master 44.1/16 - both flacs).

Googling to confirm spotify status, I Did see that maybe many streamers use watermarking, I now need to listen for that

 

[easyrider]

I can tell the difference Tidal is even recognisable by my 15 year niece

You need a decent DAC and headphones though

 

[jpaul]

though spotify premium was 320Kb/s vorbis and apple AAc 256kb/s

eh - I mean neither spotify nor apple offer lossless streaming as the poll Q predicated afaik;
but, you seem to concur, if you find Tidal (HIFI) better.

 

[Rroff]

Not really a straight yes/no answer for me - its more noticeable in some stuff than others.

 

[easyrider]

eh - I mean neither spotify nor apple offer lossless streaming as the poll Q predicated afaik;
but, you seem to concur, if you find Tidal (HIFI) better.

That's the point some claim to not tell the compressed stuff Spotify Apple Music over the lossless...

 

[Rozzy85]

If it was encoded properly (from an uncompressed master source) then no. Most of the problems that make lossy encodings sound awful is from transcoding multiple times or poor sampling like you get on Youtube.

 

[Flying_Hellfish]

In my experience/bias? Same album on Spotify Premium vs FLAC yes. Using Audinist DAC -> Topping T-amp -> Wharfedale speakers/AT-M50s.

I know this because I use Spotify to find music I might like, then only commit to buying the stuff I really like in CD format.

However I think for this you need to take the Pepsi challenge to be honest!

 

[jpaul]

you clarified in subsequent reply, ambiguity in title/Q
Can you disitinquish between lossless streaming services over Spotify and Apple Music?
would have been more clearly worded as
Can you disitinquish between lossless streaming services versusover Spotify and Apple Music?

 

[b0rn2sk8]

No because I mainly listen over Bluetooth.

 

[ahar]

While I've never heard a lossless stream before I can barely distinguish between £20 headphones and £250 headphones and think that music playing out of the speaker on my phone doesn't sound too bad so the likelihood of me distinguishing between lossless and Spotify standard is probably nil.

The the plus side, my 'lead ears' mean that I can save loads by buying very cheap audio kit

 

[dbmzk1]

I'd suggest the vast majority of people couldn't tell the difference between high quality Spotify, for example, and a lossless file, even on very high end equipment.