I use Spotify as my audio streaming service. They recently introduced Lossless audio quality, and I wanted to know whether I could hear the difference over their Very High quality. I enabled Lossless only when I'm on WiFi and then tried it on our Bose Portable Speaker with an Ella Langley song. I couldn't hear any difference, so I wondered if it was really using Lossless or my old ears were at fault. That led to finding that the Bose Portable Speaker did not support Spotify Lossless. Neither did our other main speaker, an Amazon Echo.
The only two of our devices that supported Lossless were my Pixel 7 phone, which has a terrible speaker, and our Fire TV Cubes, which are attached to our TVs, which have fair speakers at best, and I could not hear a difference. Then I thought that maybe our Vizio Soundbar would work. No again, this time due to the lack of the Spotify Connect feature. And my Google Pixel Buds 2 are no help since they use Bluetooth, which isn't fast enough to support the Lossless bit rate.
I'm thinking I may never know what Spotify Lossless sounds like, but after all the work I put into trying to find out, I'll just forget I ever heard of it.
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