Is using streaming services worthy of an audiophile?


I read that a lot of people on this forum use Tidal etc. Is this ok from audiophile perspective? I mean, do people who use such services actually know what quality is streamed? Don’t you lose all control over your music when you surrender to streaming services?
defiantboomerang
I am new to streaming.  I've had audiophile aspirations most of my life and have collected and listened to music for the past 55+ years. I have a modestly extensive collection of LPs, CDs and SACDs that I have accumulated over this time.  I enjoy having this collection and have tried to optimize my system to get the most out of my physical media.  All of this is to say that I do have an investment in physical media and certainly that is the comfort zone of my experience. So I went into streaming in general and Tidal in particular with a bias toward physical media.  My experience with Tidal is that in many ways it has transformed my listening experience.  For those audiophiles who truly enjoy music and the discovery of new music I think Tidal is great.  In my experience the sound quality of of their lossless and MQA albums are on a par with what I get from my CD player...and sound quality IS important to me.  I am not sure if Tidal is "audiophile approved", nor do I care.  My ears still work and I can discern between good and bad sounding recordings.  I don't need a device to reveal to me the meta data of the digital file before I can enjoy it.  
No concern with Tidal.  My Roon software is set to play the files natively (no conversion) and my DAC reports the incoming bit and sample rate on the display. So I know I am streaming CD quality or better.

As Shadorne has said, some DACs display the incoming signal. The bottom line is what type of sound quality you can get from your rig. I can get sensational sound quality from steaming Tidal's upper quality service through ROON.

But, to get the most out of it you need to work with ROON's digital engine settings.

I have heard some MQA demos and I'm not terribly impressed. Pretty overblown imo.

My streamer, Auralic Aries Mini, displays the sampling rate of anything playing on the Lightning DS app so i always know. And direct comparisons to my own ripped files and Tidal have mostly been about even, where I start to see differences is when one version is a better master. i.e. I may have ripped a K2 version of a cd and Tidal doesn't have the K2 my version may sound better. Other than that it's a wash.