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Does anyone else think that the Samsung plays music much better than the Apple?

While I know that Spotify isn't the best sound reproduction.  To me, Samsung sounds significantly better than Apple. 

Four years ago I fired Apple as my phone hardware and went with Samsung.  I got tired of Apple slow downs every time I updated my software.  Got the Samsung home and noticed that my music via Spotify sounded much better. 

Recently I had to fire Samsung.  I had a Note 9 and was trapped in a infinite do loop.  It continually wanted to update the software, via forced shutdowns.  The phone would reboot and go through the whole cycle again.  Found out that the phone doesn't support the new software and it was just going to keep doing that. 

So, I decided to give Apple another try.  Got it home hoping with all their hardware upgrades it would sound better than before and nope, very disappointed.
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You know, with respect to sound quality, you might be expecting too much from your phone.  Keep in mind, the "Market" for music via cell are teens, who predominately listen to mpeg music.   

I don't like Apple because of their business practices concerning vendors, but that is my opinion.   Consequently, I never buy Apple products.
Bummer on Samsung, I just upgraded my phone from an LG (about 7 years old!) to a One Plus 7T and it seems to work very well.

Spotify is mpeg compression although an upgraded plan we have uses AAC.  That being said, I recently read where Spotify is moving to FLAC files to complete with Tidal and other premium servers, so perhaps Spotify won't be so bad, comparatively.  
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