hutt132
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It must just be the Spotify Connect app on the receiver itself. It's a very noticeable quality reduction with distortion on the higher frequencies.I don't have Spotify. But, I do not perceive a difference using Amazon Music HD or my NAS with HEOS vs. other routes.
I believe Amir used HEOS to stream his test tone at one point and found it to be as clean a TOSLINK or SPDIF.
I made sure the quality setting on Spotify on my phone was set to the highest (even though I read the receiver automatically uses the highest).
If you compare yourself, you can hear it at the end of each extended word starting at 0:33 on this track:
Spotify Connect: End of each lines sounds very harsh and distorted
Spotify on HTPC over HDMI: No distortion, not harsh
Spotify from my phone over Bluetooth is a little bit better than Connect, but there's still some distortion.