I have the same experience with Spotify vs Deezer. I think it's more likely that Spotify has somehow screwed up their encoding process than that I would hear th

I have the same experience with Spotify vs Deezer. I think it's more likely that Spotify has somehow screwed up their encoding process than that I would hear the difference between high bitrate lossy and lossless compression. Spotify's volume normalization also somehow makes everything sound worse but it's easy to disable.