Hi Sen2htj, thanks for the advice. I tried it and rolled back one version of Spotify but had the same distortion. So I uninstalled and rolled back one more...same again. So I uninstalled and picked a tried a version about 6 updates ago.....and it works perfectly!
It must be something in the later updates of Spotify that's causing the issue. I may go forward until i isolate exactly what update causes the issue when i have some more time. Hopefully newer versions coming don't have the same issue.
Thanks for your help, i'm just glad to have it working again.
Nice, glad that the problem solve for now