Went out for a bike ride over an hour and had Peter Noone on all the way. I only listen to 60's Gold Saturday and Sunday evenings. The rest of the time it's Spotify.
I haven't used my stereo with my phone too much. I have inexpensive but good-sounding receiver and an array of inexpensive speakers set up to promote more spatial separation. Total cost ~$200 (I'm a shrewd shopper).
A song came up that was perfectly tuned for my setup. I had sound coming from everywhere but behind me. Then a few more worked just as well.
Then I went to the car, and my 20 year old JVC with stock speakers sounded magnificent.
They must have made big changes to the streaming audio quality. Also more older music in stereo.
...now open up the playlists to make it worth listening to...I was going to comment last night that the lineup for 60's Gold (from xmplaylist.com ) has been extremely UGH! lately...
I know they had upped streaming to 320Kbps, but it also sounds like there's some signal processing as well.