I have been using Tidal (Hi-Fi and Master quality) for almost half a year.
Recently i started using Free Spotify (160 kbps) and it’s surprisingly very good sounding.
There is this soothing sensation behind the imperfections you hear, kind of like of listening to Vinyl.
I feel like the sound with lossless is very technical and can quickly fatigue you.
What are you your experiences?
I understand that lossy compression is perceptually encoded so as to not be noticeable most of the time to most people. What concerns me is once DSP room correction as well as digital volume control are applied what guaranty is there that the lossy compression doesn't become audible? I'm no advocate of HiRes but CD quality (or FLAC or Apple lossless etc..) seems compact enough for modern networks to handle.