Pvor123 wrote: > Thanks Gary that's very helpful. > > I've been using Spotify for what must be two or three years and I've > never had albums disappear on me. > > Certainly the ability to local sync for playback in the car is of > massive benefit to me. > > Completely agree on the rent versus buy, and here I've chosen to go back > to vinyl after deciding its an album that I want to invest in. > > In many ways I use Spotify to try before buy and also the huge > convenience factor. Before I was buying between 5-10 CDs / month, where > I'm now typically at one LP / month. > > But it does frustrate me that the sound isn't quite what I'd like, > especially as vinyl is another step up again from CD. > > With broadband at the bandwidth levels it's at, hopefully we will see > true lossless coming to Spotify in the future, because you've confirmed > what my concerns are - and that the main bottleneck is now my source > file.
I too have been enjoying Spotify - and even when comparing ripped CD's (using dBpoweramp) - there's not much in it. But when recommending a DAC (I use a Squeezebox Duet by the way as source - not a Touch) I am finding that an old Arcam Black Box 1 (which housed two TDA1541A chips) sound extremely good with Spotify. Perhaps certain DACs work well with Spotify better - and there's a technical reason why! Perhaps some of the more resolving DACs using the latest technology would make Spotify less appealing? However, the Spotify/BB1 combo sounds very very good for some weird reason?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stop-spinning's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43254 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98181 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
