Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ?

No, I think I could find a good turntable for $3500 or less that would fit me just fine.

I’ve been collecting since I was 11, in 1965.  I have 6,000 LPs.

its all I can do to find time to listen to them, never mind streaming. 

@mikhailark "The issue is in pure digital,"... music will ALWAYS be translated into analog...your ears cant consume flac file

@dogberry not sure how good an analogy a printer is, but using a computer, we are not aware imho, that we ONLY work in the digital domain, but music is ALWAYS analog... and the theory/hypoothesis is that some dirt might accumulate in the digital domain, which do not affect the 0 and 1s but the DAC in some ways

I think to simply put a 10k number on “just a table” is kind of silly. The better question is, would you spend 10k on an analog setup, full table etc, maybe even include the phono stage? 

To answer the above, yes I would. My analog setup is my go to. However, it is impossible to argue the virtues of streaming. Convenient, a wealth of available music, set it and go etc. To argue if a 1k streamer is the same as a 25k streamer is irrelevant. To each their own. If the thing sounds good to the individual, then it does. Doesn’t matter how much the cost. 

@total111 - the question is indeed purely digital. It is about streamer as a computer. Streamer makes network requests to the cloud and routes packets over USB. Analog conversion is a different subject. There is no analog in the streamer.

So the question was - what is exactly different in $10K streamer as compared to $1K.