And that may be the main reason behind the silence. In short: good chance Spotify won’t get any complaints if HiFi never comes at all. But for a streamer, that’s just a drop in the bucket when it comes to subscribers. Sure: audiophiles who have learned(!) to listen more critically can. Spotify HiFi will finally bring lossless music to the popular streaming service. This means that many people can’t even tell the difference between lossy and lossless.
Furthermore, bitrates of compressed streams are pretty much maxed out on all music streamers these days. In all these cases, due to compression losses of Bluetooth codecs, you will never fully benefit from a better sound quality anyway, even if the source is lossless. Listening in a car – also via Bluetooth – is a popular activity too. Spotify announced today during a media event that starting later this year, Premium subscribers will get the option of streaming CD-quality, lossless audio via a new paid tier. Or they connect via the very same Bluetooth to a mediocore hi-fi set or wireless speaker (think teenagers, camping and so on). The vast majority of subscribers to a music service listen through headphones, usually a wireless Bluetooth one.
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