Very low quality playback in Apple Music Mac OS App

I have noticed when switching between Apple Music on IOS and Mac OS on AirPods Pro and AirPods Max a dramatic sound quality difference between the two. I'm not talking about volume or "loudness" (although that is also a noticeable problem as well), I'm talking actual fidelity. The audio itself sounds like hold music being played through a telephone. There is also noticeable digital distortion and clipping. This is streamed audio so it should have nothing to do with file corruption within iTunes because the audio sources are not coming from Mp4s saved on my hard drive. I have tried different settings like turning off soundcheck and turning off Atmos and while this has slightly helped with the volume issues, the streaming quality is still well below the lossless standard that Apple is capable of streaming in. I have A/B tested the same songs on IOS and Mac OS with the same headphones and have identified this as Mac OS Apple Music app specific.