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Interesting! it seems there is a minimal amount of albums...

26  albums of Banerjee is a good score...

5 albums of Haydn quatuors on 13 not so good...

And we must pay for many sources no ?

At least, Tidal, Quobuz, Spotify which else ?

People here seems in general above average for budget and money...

It is not my case....It is why i dont stream at all ...Anyway i am not limited by this fact...

 Thanks for your time and research ....I am surprised by the 26 albums of this sitar player ...

@mahgister just fyi, a quick search shows Qobuz has 5 volumes of the Tacet Auryn Haydn recordings (Op. 17, 50, 54, 55 & 76) and in better than CD quality (96kHz/ 24 bit depth).

And as for Nikhil Banerjee, Roon shows that between TIDAL and Qobuz  (my only sources — and I didn’t check to see if there is complete overlap or not) there are 26 albums, 2 singles/EPs of his and 1 compilation in which he is included.   

OP, 

+1 on @jsalerno277 

It sure sounds like you feel something is missing on streaming. Sounds like you are saying it is missing some emotional connection... relative to the other formats. If they sound different, it is not the media it is the components. 

@mahgister 

I also read extensively of science and philosophy. But if you are not reading / re-reading classic literature... I must recommend going back and reading some classics. I have gone back about three times over my life and reread most of the classics... and each time they were like new... so much more profound and deeper in meaning than I ever could have imagined when younger. I also read history...and when you put history... more or less the chronology of events and philosophy it is the literature that reflects the philosophy and events and fleshes out our past development. 

I highly recommend reading / rereading: toy stories, Anna Karenina, War and Peace (really hard but the second half worth it ((listen to it)) ), Falkner’s Light in August, Henry James; The Bostonians, George Orwell’s 1984 (chronicling the current events in the US), there are hundreds more... and they don’t cost and arm and a leg. 

 The Public Library! No cost!