Spotify Spotify Lossless actually sounds very good?

[ChrisByrd]

I’ve been listening to Spotify Lossless with a variety of classical music and comparing it to Amazon Music HD and Apple Music Lossless High Res. To me it sounds perfectly fine and I much prefer using Spotify to both Amazon and Apple Music (which is a pain to try to play high res music on my system). I’ve tried Spotify in the past but have been put off by the sound. My system is a WiiM Pro connected by co-ax to a Naim SuperUniti - speakers are an old pair of Opera Callas units.

How are other people finding Spotify Lossless?

 

[Mr Ee]

Remove the ? from the title
Yes, it should sound perfectly fine. Only a very poor job of resampling anything originally higher than 44.1khz would cause it to sound worse.
And the damage has already been done in mastering to a lot of the 80s and 90s stuff I listen to!

 

[azoriusmage]

I agree I am pretty impressed with it on. Apple's reliance on Airplay seems like such a blindspot for them but then I guess in their mind everyone just has Homepods? Airplay it such an inferioer mechanism than Spotify Connect or indeed Qobuz Connect which is excellent too.