Spotify 24-bit: what am I missing here?
Edit: Thanks for all the helpful replies! Fully appreciate that my ears may never know the difference between 16 and 24-bit 😄 I’m mostly just curious why Spotify offers me 24-bit, even on specifically 24-bit tracks, and then serves up 16, while Qobuz happily sends 24-bit through the same setup. At this point it’s more technical curiosity than anything else!
Edit edit: Despite having Lossless switched on, “auto adjust” was also switched on, which was throttling the quality based on my connection strength. With that switched off, 24 bit has kicked in.
I recently bit the bullet and bought a pair of Sennheiser Momentum 5, really enjoying them and don’t know how I lived without a pair of headphones like these.
There’s one issue that’s proving tricky to troubleshoot: getting Spotify to play 24-bit audio.
iPhone 15 connected to the headphones using the original Sennheiser USB-C cable. Bluetooth turned off. Spotify set to lossless quality on both WiFi and mobile data.
Spotify shows “highest track quality available: Lossless 24-bit / 44.1 kHz” but “playing quality” stays at Lossless 16-bit / 44.1 kHz. It’s not a toggle option, and my frantic tapping didn’t change that.
I started a trial of Qobuz and it was immediately happy to stream a track offered at 24-bit / 192 kHz, with playback through the Momentum 5 showing 24-bit / 48 kHz.
So at least Qobuz appears to be sending the highest quality the current output path is negotiating, rather than falling back to 16-bit.
Am I missing something here? A setting? A limitation of this setup? A reason to buy the BTD 700? That final option is on my list, but would like to figure this out as well. Thanks for any advice!