And that may be the main reason behind the silence. At the time, Spotify said that Spotify HiFi would arrive this year, meaning sometime in 2021. In short: good chance Spotify won’t get any complaints if HiFi never comes at all. But for a streamer, that’s just a drop in the bucket when it comes to subscribers. Sure: audiophiles who have learned(!) to listen more critically can. This means that many people can’t even tell the difference between lossy and lossless.
Furthermore, bitrates of compressed streams are pretty much maxed out on all music streamers these days. In all these cases, due to compression losses of Bluetooth codecs, you will never fully benefit from a better sound quality anyway, even if the source is lossless. Listening in a car – also via Bluetooth – is a popular activity too. Spotify will deliver lossless, CD-quality audio but we don’t know if it’ll cost. Or they connect via the very same Bluetooth to a mediocore hi-fi set or wireless speaker (think teenagers, camping and so on). Spotify first announced Spotify HiFi back in February to compete with Apple’s focus on spatial and hi-res audio. The vast majority of subscribers to a music service listen through headphones, usually a wireless Bluetooth one.
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