Always at the highest on wifi. I just checked and found download quality was at the second highest setting, so adjusted that.sal paradise wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:07 pmSilly question- have you changed Spotify settings to play at highest quality?marqueemoon wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 5:11 pmI believe they did. It’s a professional mastering house and that was part of the conversation from the beginning. It’s mainly the subtle details that don’t come across right.mbene085 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 2:38 pm
Two thoughts.
1) Did your mastering engineer prepare a file specifically for Spotify? Their normalization algorithm can be very unflattering, particularly if it's fed too hot of a master.
2) You should give Tidal a shot. I don't care about quality if I'm listening on wireless earbuds while gardening or working out, but on nice monitors there's definitely no comparison, Tidal sounded great and Spotify...is Spotify.
I’ve made other music that’s on Spotify where its drawbacks are less apparent because it’s mixed in a more heavy handed way.
I’ll do a little more looking into Tidal.
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Tidal’s interface is pretty comparable to Spotify. Sometimes it acts weirdly when I play it over Chromecast, but overal it’s a solid alternative. I’m not an audiophile so audio quality wise I don’t have any useful remarks to make — they both sound good to me.