[gorm]

It's always room for improvement on any service, but it's not really fair to complain that a service costing $10 a month is not suitable for critical classical listening on a stereo that cost $10.000.

Best step IMHO is to push more online music retailers to sell lossless files for critical listening or maybe Spotify could sell it, hopefully for more than $10 a month.

[modokode]

Eh, my stereo equipment didn't cost anywhere near ten grand, but I wager it can still show the difference between 160 and 320 kilobits of compressed music. From what I gathered from the op, though, it's not so much about the practical difference than the fact that he feels he's paying for something he's not actually getting - and that's something that is fair to complain about.