The difference between Qoboz stream vs purchased songs

@carlsbad2 that's what I was thinking, right.

@ghdprentice am always trying to up my game, the pulsemini was a welcome addition to the mix. Am currently thinking of the Parasound halo hint 6 as the next victim in this madness. Hoping this will replace the Marantz 7025 power amp, using a Marantz sr5015. Hoping to use the parasound w/ht pass through. Have some kef ls50meta, along with a rel ht1003. Synergistic research foundation power and speaker, audioquest evergreen interconnect, and iconoclast power, for cableing. Any thoughts on this is appreciated. 

@vonhelmholtz look above, have tried to post my system on the sight, I get stupid or something, but i cant figure it out, sorry. My budget is around $2500 a year. Thanks for any input you may have.

Are you talking CDs? or digitally downloaded purchases such as apple music.   I'm not sure they even do that any more. 

Thank you for the additional info.

First, if you click on your UserID… a couple times you will eventually find, “create a virtual system”. If you get their it becomes easy. Easy to post photos and ID your system.

I looked up the components you have. I assume if you are on a fixed income that means you are retired. My initial conclusion is to take your time. Look very carefully at all your components before moving forward.

If carefully considered, one can make great improvements with $2.5K… and even greater in a year or two. But, to do this a very careful strategy is required. We will have to make sure the components you are considering will move you towards the sound you like.

Typically, one would have about 35% of your investment in speakers. Having two sets just dilutes the effectiveness. Also, combining with an AV Processor will degrade the sound. All of these things need be considered to move forward efficiently.

If we can see your current system / venue, this will help a lot. I am also happy to discuss privately via private message.

@carlsbad2 I don't have the space for CDs, so I am looking at downloads off of Qoboz. Just curious whether it would make sense to invest in a product that would make it so. Thanks for the response. 

The only advantage of buying an album via download from Qobuz versus streaming it is that you now own the album. This means you can still play it if you cancel your Qobuz subscription, or if Qobuz loses the contractual right to stream the album (this does happen periodically with some labels and artists.) And, with a downloaded copy, this also lets you burn it to CD for use in your car or take individual tracks off the album for use in a "mix tape." The latter item used to be more of a thing than it is these days, I think. 

Some people are more obsessive than others about owning copies of albums; that's something you need to figure out for yourself.