since OP forgot that barely anyone knows or gives a shit about kbps, let me translate:
their friend switched from spotify to tidal and discovered that spotify’s “HD” music sounds WAY worse than tidal’s “HD” music despite theoretically being the same HD
“spotify or apple music”
one of my friends is trying out a Tidal subscription right now and was like “wow, it’s so much clearer!”
they. were. streaming. 96. kilobits. per second. not even lossless.
so basically anything BUT spotify for me