House is the broadest of the club genres and the one most likely to be mislabelled. The tag here covers deep house, progressive, tech house, vocal house and the big-room festival sound, which share a tempo range and very little else. A deep house channel and a big-room channel at the same volume are perhaps eight decibels apart in perceived loudness.
The format distinction that matters more than subgenre is whether a channel plays mixes or tracks. Mixed channels are engineered to run for hours and are the better choice for work or driving. Track-based channels are better for discovery, because you can identify what you heard.
House is bass-led and suffers audibly below about 128 kbps. Stations in this directory running 192 kbps are worth the additional data if you are listening on anything with a subwoofer or decent headphones; on a phone speaker, which cannot reproduce the bottom octave anyway, the difference largely disappears and a lower-bitrate feed is the sensible choice.
