How To Make Spotify Sound Better

The thing with music is that it’s subjective. Some people prefer the hard thumping bass from electronic dance music, while others prefer crystal clear vocals and guitar notes that sound like it’s sparkling. But if there is one thing most people can agree on, it’s that audio quality does matter (to a certain extent).

If you’re trying to get the most out of your Spotify experience and squeeze the best possible quality out of the service, hardware aside, it’s actually a really simple process that you can do in a matter of seconds.

Desktop

1. Open Spotify
2. Go to Preferences
3. Under Music Quality, click on Streaming quality
4. Select your preference

Mobile app

1. Launch Spotify
2. Tap on Home
3. Tap on Settings
4. Under Audio Quality, select your preferred quality

What these options will do is change the quality of the music being played. Obviously choosing a higher quality stream means that all things equal, it should sound better than a stream of normal quality, but it doesn’t end there.

While changing the quality of your stream will no doubt have an impact on how it sounds, there are other ways you can also go about making your Spotify sound better, and that is by adjusting the equalizer.

What is an equalizer?

You might have heard the term tossed around before and if you’ve never bothered to adjust the equalizer in your music player, you are missing out! For those unfamiliar, an equalizer is essentially an audio filter that can isolate or boost certain frequencies.

This is because sound is essentially a frequency and by adding filters, cutting, lowering, or increasing certain frequencies, it will change how your music will sound. For example if you want to boost the bass of a song, you would adjust the equalizer where you turn up the lower frequencies.

Alternatively, if a song sounds too bassy, you can try lowering the lower frequencies and boosting the mids or highs to balance it out. The reason why you would do this is because sometimes the headphones or speakers you’re using might lean towards one spectrum, so using an equalizer can help balance things out.

To adjust the equalizer in Spotify:

1. Launch Spotify on your smartphone
2. Tap on Home
3. Tap Settings
4. On iOS tap Playback > Equalizer and toggle it on; On Android under Music Quality tap on Equalizer
5. Choose a preset or drag the dots to make the adjustments manually

Tyler Lee
Categories: Audio
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Spotify