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Hi! TLDR: playing high/res audio through apple music makes low-end frequencies muddy/distorted and sound from the speakers is not clear. So i am a bit confused as to why i have this problem occurring. I have the following setup: 16" MBP M1 Pro scarlett solo DAC connected to two active speakers through 6,5mm (from the scarlett) to XLR to the speakers. I use apple music due to its lossless alternative to listen to my music. However, the sound coming out from the speakers from my MBP is distorted/muddy and not clear. I have tried going into the MIDI setting for the mac to update the soundcard's sample rate setting. I have also used an app called LosslessSwitcher (https://github.com/vincentneo/LosslessSwitcher) that switches the sample rates automatically between songs. However, it has not resolved the distorted sound. I have also tried with two more DACs, SMSL su8 -Fiio e10k Both of them produce the same distortion when playing apple music lossless quality. However, once i use an older mac that i have, that is an intel-machine mac, everything sounds fine, no distortion, no problems. Once i connect from my MBP that runs the apple chips, i have the distortion. Playing lossless through the built in speakers of the laptop sounds correct. Using the laptop's Auxiliary port that has an internal DAC works fine as well, but once i connect to an external DAC using the USBC ports, i have the distortion. It is such a frustrating problem. I don't think having a discussion with apple support would solve this problem as they would just recommend me trying different ports, reinstalling etc. its just not viable because it makes no sense that after trying different ports, different DACs, it still sounds distorted. Some very similar things I've found online: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253476970 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253778521?page=2 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253134937 I'll attach a demo where you can hear the problem: https://imgur.com/a/1DkLBFA In the video, I am switching between the soundcard, and the internal laptop speakers. You can hear that the bass is distorted and muddy when outputting sound from the speakers. Note that i am only getting this problem from Apple Music. I have played music from an application called Cider (https://cider.sh/#) and spotify, all that works fine. No distortion. But note that cider does not support apples lossless streaming. Also, if i turn of the lossless alternative in Apple Music, it sounds fine. All insight/help is appreciated. If there are any more questions, just ask away. Kind regards
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