11-Mar-2015, 12:33
Just did some A B comparison of Spotify AirPlay to Aurender and my hires files, since I have Spotify premume subscription and I like the service very much, (TIDAL has a long road ahead to reach what spotify offering now. )
I picked in my opinion very good composition for doing the test and its Casandra Wilson - Salomon Sang , I have it in 24bit 192KhZ and the quality is amazing with very good and rich but not in you face bass.
So I hoped to not hear a lot of difference but sadly in some way the hires file sounded much better with deeper bass, blacker backround and very tube like sound , Spotify wasn't that bad but after you hear the original you can't get back.
I don't know if it's AirPlay limitation or the stream of 320kbit not enough but I hope Aurender will integrade the service as well in native app and hopefully the SQ will increase.
I picked in my opinion very good composition for doing the test and its Casandra Wilson - Salomon Sang , I have it in 24bit 192KhZ and the quality is amazing with very good and rich but not in you face bass.
So I hoped to not hear a lot of difference but sadly in some way the hires file sounded much better with deeper bass, blacker backround and very tube like sound , Spotify wasn't that bad but after you hear the original you can't get back.
I don't know if it's AirPlay limitation or the stream of 320kbit not enough but I hope Aurender will integrade the service as well in native app and hopefully the SQ will increase.
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