Streaming

I bought a used Bluesound NODE 3rd gen and listen to free radio, iHeart and Radio Paradise.  I’m using the built in DAC.  It sounds wonderful!  MUCH better than my CD’s on a high quality player.  

I am a discriminating audiophile with pretty good hearing still, and I am quite happy with my $600 Bluesound Node, without using an external DAC and using wi-fi rather than an ethernet cable.  It was easy to set up the streaming, but you need to control it from a smartphone.  It was far more difficult to get it to connect with the music files on my computer, but I'm guessing that's not a concern for you?

You can plug the Node into your preamp and tape from it just as you would from any other source.  If you want to hear new music or different performances of works you already have, streaming is a great way to do it.  I subscribe to both Tidal and Qobuz for CD-quality or higher-resolution music, with no commercials.  Each has some content the other doesn't have, with Tidal being stronger for popular music.  With streaming you can also have access to hundreds of conventional and internet-only radio stations in any genre you can think of.

Forget abt more complicated stuffs abt streaming, to start off streaming, u need to have a good wifi connected to the Internet. And here, we have free Spotify to get use to streaming. Tidal also offers 1 month free music streaming svs before subsr. 

If you dont want to spend much, start off with Only $99, you get a WiiM Mini streamer with a high-quality Burr-Brown PCM5121 onboard. 

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I enjoy streaming. 
One of the great things about online music streaming services is the sheer variety that is available. On pretty much all streaming services there are millions upon millions of songs to choose from. This is great because you are sure to never run out of music to listen to. Some streaming services like Tidal and etc even offer radio channels and music viodeos. 
You can discover new music on daily basis. 
My greatest streaming  fav being you can personalise your fav artistst with your fav songs. Example like this 

You don’t need to subscribe to multiple channels. Just subsc to one of either Tidal or Qubuz or Apple music or Amazon music, thats enough. 

I’m past retirement age and just got my first streamer and am having a blast listening to new and old music that I would have never been able to hear.  Also there are a few threads here on Agon talking about what other people are listening to and I’ve learned a lot about new to me music.

@ham_firl    Excellent advice and most practical also.