Do I Really Need a Dedicated Streamer?

@audphile1 This is really awesome tech info and what I need to learn.  thank you.  I appreciate you taking the time for my specific question.   

@audioman58 Thank you also.  makes sense

@dunkin You ask do I need a dedicated streamer?

I answer, ‘No you do not.’

But I interpret those who have tried to counsel you on this matter, that, considering that you have a good DAC, amp, and speakers, if were to TRY a dedicated streamer (and perhaps some software delivering lossless audio), you would WANT a dedicated streamer. The sound is that much better. But far be it from me to tell you what to do. Be happy. Listen to the music. 

OP

you don’t really need a streamer.  As I mentioned up thread streamers are just networking computers that are optimized for playing audio files.  They also look like audio components and not like PCs.  They tend to dispese with the OS that PCs use and utilize OS optimized for music playback as opposed to say, trying to sell you stuff.

  If a PC, or tablet,sounds fine to you in your system, then you are done.

Whoever would say a pc is as good soniclyas a good

Or even decent streamer has never heard a decent audio system

And your ethernet cabled as well as usb and I2S  cables

Are equally important  if you want optimum 

Results i have compared many for digital

Tubulus Audio cables especially Digital cables.

@dunkin

I love the Spotify playlists playing music at random. They offer a much better variety of topics to choose from and then they individualize the number of playlists as I recall which are very good.

Playlists on Q or T are not as good. I was able to transfer many Spotify playlists over to qobuz. I thought Spotify was going to offer hi-fi at some point.

If you buy a streamer, probably will be a lot better than an iPad especially if you have McIntosh and a chord dac ( I have a TT two Hugo chord, and a lumin x1 streamer/dac that I like a lot more). I also have blue sound which was kind of crappy.

The commentary here in related to a streamer I found especially helpful and prepared by people who really know what they’re doing. Who knows maybe there’s a billionaire that’s writing a comment. Streamers do a lot of stuff.

I also enjoy exploring endless rabbit holes which require additional fees to open up new tunnels and some tunnels are extremely expensive to explore. Unfortunately, the tunnels are so complicated that you probably will not be able to escape. So I would approach this Area carefully.