You can chase your tail all night but the system you put together better play to your liking. Today for me it's horns and tubes. tomorrow that might change.
We all need variety and maybe multiple systems. Far and few between IMHO.
Where does music come from that streams?
If I was creating my own streaming company, would I reproduce songs from a CD or from a record? So when I listen to my streaming source, qobuz, where do they get the music I listen to? Does the music come from master tapes? Well that would seem to be a pretty good place to get it
Sometimes I wonder, a particular song on qobuz doesn’t sound very good and I know I’ve heard it better in the past. And most stuff sounds pretty good and comparable to other sources.