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Not to me it doesn't. Surely the data either comes through or it doesn't?

It's bollox, to be blunt

Audio streaming requires so little bandwidth even a crappy old ADSL could handle it without issue.

It would buffer if there wasn't enough bandwidth not sound different.

Placebo effect/expectation bias is what's going on here...
 
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It's bollox, to be blunt

Audio streaming requires so little bandwidth even a crappy old ADSL could handle it without issue.

It would buffer if there wasn't enough bandwidth not sound different.

Placebo effect/expectation bias is what's going on here...
And yet, people have issues streaming. Buffering capabilities would be down to the streaming item, and we all know many of these items don't necessarily have a large enough cache.

Playing Devil's advocate...

What if, some or all music streaming services do what Netflix does, and throttles the bandwidth when needed to try and keep he end user experience uninterrupted? It's not something they'd publicise, as people would be screaming for refunds for something they're paying for. And Average Joe wouldn't notice anyway as they couldn't tell MP3 from hi-res.

They're a business, after all, and need to maintain subscribers. Buffering is visible (and annoying), but reducing bandwidth to keep things uninterrupted would be a very easy and desired trade off for a multi-million point company.
 
Precisely, as you so succinctly put it.....
I was alluding to watching high quality 4K streaming. When there are issues with the network, working but my 1GB data has gone down to 20mb.
Netflix will compress the video so it's able to function, there's an obvious degrading of the picture quality.
Its not rocket science! 😏

Fishes swim and perform much better in a bigger fish tank.....Hey Mr Bit Fish....You're in my Bit Postal Code....sorry everything is round, keep going in a circle... 😊

If it's audio, it's not often the threshold is breached, you still get an acceptable sound quality.
 
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