Apple Music help: sound quality much worse than spotify (sounds echoy)

[mrzeve]

Hey guys

Something I've noticed with Apple Music [on my Mac specifically] that has completely ruined the experience for me.

Every song has like an echo to it. I dont know if im using the right word here. But it almost sounds like its a Karaoke track and the vocals are on a completely different layer from the rest of the music.

I just went to test the theory again and its completely noticeable on the current #1 song on Apple Music, Cheerleader by Omi. Listen to that song on Apple Music compared to Spotify and its SO noticeable.

Anyone having a similar issue?

 

[jhfenton]

Nope. The sound is indistinguishable from locally-stored or streamed MP3s or AACs.

 

[flur]

I'm not having this issue either.

Some folks have said that Beats1 is poorer quality, but I don't really listen to it, so I don't know. Is that what you're listening to?

 

[mrzeve]

Nope, not beats1. Just straight up on demand playing.

Here are samples of what Im talking about. Do you hear the difference? its like this on every song..

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7feakrwy509pcgv/itunes.mp3?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/olybna1bi3w6fdy/spotify.mp3?dl=0

 

[Fatboy71]

Not hearing this issue in the UK.

I find the sound quality from Apple Music to be better than Spotify (and that was with having Spotify on the Extreme sound quality setting). For my ears, Apple Music has more detail and actually sounded louder and generally just sounded better.

 

[thekayman]

Perfect sound on all devices. Even on cellular which is supposed to be worse quality than wifi it sounds very good.

 

[Tech198]

really, ? the iTunes one, to me sound better than the spotify one, as that was the one that sounded echoy based on the two files linked.