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Sennheiser hasn’t debuted a premium set of wireless headphones since the Momentum 4 arrived in 2022. Sure, there were two sets of Accentum cans, but those offer more mid-range performance in the $180-$250 range. Instead of a Momentum 5 for its latest release, the company has revealed the HDB 630: a $500 set of wireless noise-canceling headphones that offer lossless …

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority Back in 2009, I was one of the lucky few to have an invite to Spotify’s UK launch program, when the future of music discovery was bright and exciting, unlike today’s bleak abyss of arist impoverishment and algorithm-induced repetition. How it’s taken fourteen years for Spotify Lossless to finally arrive on the scene is anyone’s …

Mere weeks after I canceled my Spotify subscription, switched to Tidal, and wrote a lengthy editorial about why I won’t be going back, Spotify decided to pause its onslaught of user-unfriendly updates and add some extra value to its service instead. The music streaming service launched lossless streaming at no additional cost on September 10, then allowed free users to …

In February 2021, Spotify announced that it would be taking on the rest of the streaming landscape with its own lossless playback, then called Spotify HiFi. Four years, six months, 25 days later, I’m able to write a review of Spotify Lossless now that it’s finally reached phones, laptops and tablets the world over. There’s a chance that you’ve already …

Last week, Spotify Lossless was unveiled to the world and loyal subscribers everywhere let out a collective sigh of relief. Finally, no more crunchy audio playback. Now that it’s rolling out to Premium subscribers bit by bit, some users (myself included) have had some time to get used to Spotify’s new Lossless setting, but the upgrade isn’t as monumental as …

Now that Spotify has “lossless listening,” the idea of higher quality streaming is cemented in the mainstream. Those streaming numbers and bitrates are no longer just the talking points of audio-weirdos — your friend at work is suddenly going to become interested in hi-res audio, and how much better it sounds than “the old Spotify.” But what does it all …

Now that Spotify Lossless is coming, us loyal subscribers can sit back and relax after what feels like an eternity since it was first announced. The announcement has raised a number of questions about Spotify’s biggest upgrade yet, and we’re here to answer them for you. It’s exciting to finally be able to listen to music on Spotify without it …

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days — with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone — you will never notice a difference between Spotify’s high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with wired headphones while working at …

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days — with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone — you will never notice a difference between Spotify’s high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with wired headphones while working at …

I’d heard about Spotify‘s new Lossless feature but wasn’t sure what it actually did. After years of users begging for higher quality audio, Spotify has finally delivered one of its most requested features. The upgrade makes a genuinely noticeable difference to music quality, with songs revealing details that weren’t audible before through standard streaming. Lossless has been one of the …