[bruno2009]

... has brought me a little further into the streaming business. Still not totally convinced this will be an alternative for me though. I do love my music as a physical collection and till now streaming has only been interesting for mobile use and to listen into and find new music - as soon as it`s considered "worthy" I buy it on physical media - when possible on vinyl.

Streaming and "renting" my music from a streaming client is just not what I consider worthy of a hobby "music" that has such a strong center in my life. I have always (partially) defined myself through music and music scenes and found a physical music collection to be a huge part of this (I actually even have my problems accepting someone without a good physical music collection to be a true "fan" or music lover).

But that`s a question of attitude (maybe) and further I do want to dive deeper into streaming as an alternative.

So - whilst making some progress using the MacBook with the Audirvana Software and a Tidal subscription it is still nowhere close to my physical media playback.

I have compared several times and still find Vinyl to be superior (by far) and CD a little more enjoyable.

So the question is - what can be done to better the streaming playback? Use a better transport for streaming? How much benefit will this bring over a MacBook with audirvana?

As a DAC I use my McIntosh C 52 - just so you have a comparison on the other sources - I use a Moon Neo 260D Transport for CD and a full Brinkmann (incl. Arm and Cartridge) Lagrange via Pass XP 15 for Vinyl into the McIntosh C 52 and MC 452... Streaming Tidal via the above is far from reaching that quality in reproduction.

Enjoy the music folks !!!