@oldschool1948 @jafant agree with both of you.
I go back and forth with streaming from Tidal MQA and listening to stored content on my Innuos Zenith3+Phoenix USB and I’m still feeling like my stored content sounds better (ever so slightly deeper, and fuller/dynamic).
I’ve been downloading all that I can HiRes off Bandcamp and ripping tons of CD’s because of it.
My SU-R1000 MC Phono Stage and DSP is otherworldly and makes me just laugh spinning vinyl (Ortofon MC Blue on my Teac TT XLR out).
Source is always the key, and everything falls after.
System:
Innuos Zenith 3/Phoenix USB (cat8)
Musetec MH-D005
Technics SU-R1000
Parasound JC5 (soon to be JC1+ Mono’s!!!)
JBL L100 75’s
Dual KEF 12b Kubes
Teac TN-5BB TT