Thank you. I thought he had a YouTube site called Golden Sound. I will watch this now.
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Not a big loss, he’s just a garden variety youtube prostitute reviewer writing nonsense about things he does not understand for clicks and engagement. And those sweet, sweet freebies.
I had seen these articles (links below) first before watching Golden Sound’s video. I have to give GS credit though, at least he did an actual experiment. The two guys in the links below also did and concluded Spotify Lossless was actually lossless. I am not an engineer and am in no position to critique methodologies.
https://blog.szynalski.com/2025/12/is-spotify-lossless-really-lossless/
https://blog.szynalski.com/2025/12/is-spotify-lossless-really-lossless-part-2/
Well, the start and end of it is that Spotify Lossless is lossless, sensationalized headlines from youtoob reviewers notwithstanding.
Hi Boris,
Yes, of course, they all want clicks. But he’s doing quite well. He measures and shows the results.
Personally, I wouldn’t bother with it at all and would choose a streaming service that is bit perfect.
How is it that I found it in less than 10 seconds?
Seems you and Boris need to learn how to use the internet.
I am impressed. And please don’t burden Boris with my internet incompetence, he played no part.
Now I am going to go back to burning in my new interconnects with pink noise. Only 147 more hours to go before I can start my critical listening sessions.
Two birds of the same flock.
He clearly didn’t do his homework when he gave Spotify a pass.
Hey Mikey, who are you referring to?
I’m a little slow on the uptake! Can you name names?
Why don’t you write/type plainly?
Seriously. Are you just philosophically opposed to reading comprehension?
That some yootoob clown has no idea what lossless means is not too surprising. From someone pretending (for no discernible reason, but still) to be a “compooter eggspert” it is a bit odd.
Really, all one needs is a service that has the music they need and that works with their equipment.
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I also think the EverSolo DMP-A10 is a better option in terms of sound quality and user experience. It lacks the Rose Tube, but you can watch music videos on Spotify Connect. 
“Considering the EverSolo T8, which is as pointless as the 130, except that it at least works, supports many more streaming services, and has more storage space, the T8 costs a quarter of the price of the 130.”
Currently, the best choice is the EverSolo DMP-A10. It’s higher quality than the RS151. Besides, it costs 60% of the price of the RS151. Rose has a lot of work ahead of it to stay in the market.
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Rose seems to have picked a specific market segment of people with bad hearing but susceptible to “it costs more, it must be better” style of marketing. Seems to be working for them.
In 2022 RS-series were pretty good. Not state of the art on sound quality, but good enough, and the screen was pretty unique. In 2026, compared with even EverSolo, which has proper sub integration, room correction, PEQ, and other nice things that Rose outright refuses to add, not to mention software that’s being actively developed (not to mention what Lyngdorf, NAD, and others are doing on the upper end, and Wiim or BluSound on lower end) they do not seem to be even in the running on sound quality or features.
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This doesn’t bode well for Rose. It’s a shame, because it looked so promising in 2021. 
Back then, I bought the RS150B, and now I mostly listen to the DMP-A10.
I’m not sure, there’s no shortage of truly terrible gear that sells at a premium price just fine, and Rose is (well, other than the quality of the software) by no means terrible.
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That’s not the point. 
More and more streamers from China are being manufactured with premium configurations and quality at 50% the price of competing devices. Rose is also in this overpriced category.
And the price works wonders. 
I would disagree probably. At this point EverSolo is overpriced as well (although not as badly). But just look around on this forum even. These are Veblen goods. People do not buy them because they are a good value (those who want something that “just works” and as good or better than anything these people do just buy a Wiim or something), people buy them precisely because they are a bad value – so they can strut around going “look at me, I can buy an absolutely useless piece of crap for six grand!” It does not really happen anywhere as often in the real high-end world (people who can afford a Burmestrer don’t need to prove anything to anyone) but in the mid-market it’s quite common.
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I agree with Boris, there is room enough in the HiFi economy for Rose. The price is not what is hurting the brand, it is that the components, primarily software, don’t “just work.” If the user experience was similar on a $1000 component, owners would be just as frustrated. But depending on the thickness of their wallets, they might be less upset with the purchase.
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Given that even companies producing extremely overpriced and completely useless crap (like any cable or fuse manufacturer) stay in business, Rose, which makes products that at least mostly work can, too. But then of course Novatron (the original, or one of original big screen streamers)stayed in business for quite a while too. Until it did not…
The irony is that even $300 components often have better user experience (ignoring the whole heavy aluminum case and purty big screen thing) and may sound better, if properly set up, because they have real software developers and real engineers, rather than audiophiles, on staff.
Because so much of HiFi ends up being very subjective (as in, the owner will believe that their expensive component is “better” because admitting otherwise would mean admitting that they wasted money on an inferior device because they don’t understand how electricity works, and we can’t have that!) there’s room for just about anything.
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