What is the highest quality digital music file? Where can I get it?

Qobuz has all the sound quality you need at present and for many equipment upgrades into the future.

Streaming is the way to go. Streaming makes up about 90% of record company revenues now. It’s easy, it’s cheap, it offers more music than you could collect on your own and it’s great for exploring new music.

Keep your cd player if you already have a cd collection or like to collect physical formats. .

Many people rave about the Schitt Yggdrasil DAC (yes that’s all spelled correctly) with Bluesound Node streamers. That or one of their cheaper DACs would probably be a solid upgrade for not too much money.  Just do a forum search for Schitt Yggdrasil for many opinions

+1, @vonhelmholtz

@njwvista

Qobuz sound quality is pretty darn good. Keep the Node and add a external DAC’s within your budget. If you afford it, grab this DAC before it’s gone, you won’t regret it!

To upgrade to a better streamer or external DAC you are probably talking $1000 minimum. You can buy a LOT of CD's for $1000 espescially second hand. Buy 1 CD to stsrt and compare it to the streaming version in your rig. At the end you will know what to do. You OWN physical media which is nice. I hate it when a straming vendor suddenly drops a track or album I favorited.

I plan on buying a few CDs to test quality. It's good to hear opinions of streaming quality vs other formats being new to it. Also to hear what gear pairs nicely. 

The bluesound sounds way better with a good dac. My node 2 sounded okay with the analog outputs but it was lacking details air and speed, I added a tube dac into the mix now it's so much better. I also noticed that if I tried using the node 2's tone controls the soundstage shrank considerably.