Sound quality has worsened (might be El Capitan)

I listen to Spotify a lot via headphones at work, and I noticed lately that the sound quality is pretty bad (again). Volume normalization is turned off. The sound is thin and not very dynamic. A fair bit of distortion as well. I'm running El Capitan public beta, so that might be it, but Itunes sound a lot better. Lots more bass and stereo definition.

In case someone runs into this in the future, I solved the
issue, which is still a little confusing. The sound was recorded at
a lower quality, but still sounded great when played back within a
slide. But when I previewed it, the quality deteriorated, even when
I moved the settings up to highest quality.
Once I rerecorded the audio at the highest setting, it
sounded great in both the slide and the preview.

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