Sound quality: Spotify Premium vs Qobuz. Convince Spotify very high quality has good enough sound quality.

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Are there any measurements or studies that show Spotify’s default streaming quality has an audible difference to lossless? If not, then there’s no reason not to use Spotify streaming beyond the fact you’re renting your music. I was under the impression, and thought I have read articles, stating issues with lossy compression have been solved.

here is a study from 2019 which includes 192kbs AAC https://www.researchgate.net/public...odec_Compared_to_AAC_MP3_and_Uncompressed_PCM

note that AAC is probably even better in 2022 (not sure though if work is going on) AND that Spotify has 256kbs!!! AAC