Apple Music HIFI edition

It’s probably half a loaf either way.  I use AirPlay sometimes but it’s definitely lossy.

Spotify sounds pretty good even though it’s lossy, but of course won’t match a High Rez recording as heard through Qobuz or Tidal.  AirPlay can be frustrating to use, so personally I would stick with Spotify 

Apple airplay has been quite reliable and easy to use for me. No buffering, sounds equal to Amazon HD. Just launch Apple music app and connect.

Eh, I don’t know about that.  I use AirPlay with my Home Pod and that seems ok, but when I use it with my Cambridge Audio CXN streamer , using Qobuz standard resolution files from my Android Phone, and then compare it to the same Qobuz files played directly on the streamer, AirPlay sounds worse.).  I also read a poster in a different forum who has equipment that can measure file size who claimed that AirPlay was coming in at less than the advertised setting).

  AirPlay also drives me nuts in that when I try to play a file from either the phone or iPad it frequently will play a different file, one that I may have listened to weeks ago.  I created a thread here and no one was helpful, and Apple Support was clueless (“It just does that” was the extent of their support).

  Having said all that, AirPlay is still a valuable tool to have and I use it

Airplay 2 is the current Apple option and limited to 16/44 but Spotify is

even less. Want Apple at higher res go hard wired from the appropriate

Apple product.