Funny how streaming/digital still chases that analog benchmark.

".....but with a streamer plus a $15/month subscription you can access unlimited HD music."
Depends on what your definition of "HD" is.

Too bad everything is not available on vinyl, but the sad truth is that it's not. I too enjoy streaming music from my collection as well as Qobuz. It sounds very good and I love the convenience of all that music from my listening chair. No, it's not quite vinyl, but it is still very good.

Oz

It’s great that you enjoy analog, but your need to rant against digital indicates a little insecurity. Do the rants make your vinyl sound better?

I would just enjoy your music however you please and allow others the same courtesy.

Just FYI, vinyl sound is not the goal for most digital listeners.  We are looking for something much better and I think we will inevitably get it.

A example of $15 a month put to good use.

Someone recommended this album, Dominique Fils Aime', her "Three Little Words" album. I used Qobuz to give it a listen, enjoyed what I heard , so then purchased the album off of Amazon as a preorder due in the states in about a week. My point is, I listen to digital but still try to support the musician buy purchasing their music in vinyl format.

bluemoodriver-

Using digital, I can use DSP to pervert what the musician intended and produce a frequency response like you get from vinyl. I can set up a number of different DSP profiles for each track to replicate the way the sound worsens as the needle heads towards the hole. I can add a sample of surface noise. I can add random pops and clicks. I can make all lower frequency sound mono instead of stereo. I can make these pops and rumbles a little more annoying each time I play the same album.

Okay, okay, you're a pervert. Got it. But there you go again, trying to make digital sound like analog. Which is the point. It's never the other way around. Joke all you want, you know it's true, the standard is analog. Digital is for when you just don't care that much that it sucks.