How to Improve Your Spotify Sound Quality

If you have a premium Spotify account, a high-quality headphone amplifier/DAC such as Apogee Groove, and hi-fidelity headphones like Sennheiser’s HD-650, you can experience the ultimate in music streaming sound quality on your Mac or Windows laptop. Spotify premium accounts offer a high-quality streaming option in the preferences panel. This will give you 320 kbps streaming, the highest quality compressed streaming audio available.

Here’s how to enable high quality streaming with Spotify Premium:

1. Open Spotify Preferences

2. Find the Music Quality Section

3. Toggle the “High-Quality Streaming” slider to the on or green position