Want to get into Streaming


I know very little about streaming. I did read a ways back in some thread to look up someone, he had a primer on the subject for someone like me, in my situation. Thank you for your help.
sabrejet
@sabrejet .
Okay, a primer for streaming:
1. A streaming service via the web.
Qobuz, Tidal are high resolution services. 
Or
1.5 A streaming unit like-
The Bluesound Node (lots of streaming applications) or Aurender N100 (Qobuz or Tidal, only).
2. A good DAC
Ayre Codex, Schiit Yggy, Mytek Brooklyn-All good DAC's at a great price point- Around $2K new, much less used.
All of the aforementioned will be well under $10K, and will be a good introduction to streaming music. If you want to spend more, I would be glad to provide additional information.
Bob
Streaming is a subset of digital source. 
HD digital digital from local storage should be considered.  
You can get downloads in various resolutions.

I've had TIDAL and Qobuz for many months and recently stopped TIDAL as my bandwidth was fine and I saw no need to compress/uncompress - or fold.  
If your data rates are up to the task it does not matter how the same digital source gets to your DAC.  SSD, CD, SCAD, USB, Bluetooth, WiFi or hard wired.  
There is a difference in bit rate.  16/44.1 vs 24...  Sometimes the sound engineers mess with the same track in different rates.  
Typically the lower res stuff is louder.  
M19D - Fein DAC II
Made in Australia. This DAC punches way above it's price point.

Around USD$1300 with current exchange rate.

PCM - 32bit 384KHz max

DSD - DSD64, DSD128, DSD256, DSD512

**No MQA**


Well, if you got the Innuos Zen Mk3 server/streamer and an Audio Mirror Tubadour Mklll SE DAC that cost about $2500 each you’d have a pretty damn nice sounding streaming setup at half your max budget.  The bonus with the Zen streamer is it has onboard memory and its own disc spinner so you can easily load all your CDs into it and have access to your entire music collection through it in addition to streaming from Qobuz or Tidal.  No more getting up to change CDs, and you can make your own playlists, play songs randomly, etc.  Best of luck.