Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?

@deep_333 

(Fremer is 80 years old....... a.k.a age associated hearing degradation coupled with decades of severe psychological bias. Fremer tasked with a/b comparisons in a blindfold will sink quicker than a rock in the pacific and become fully irrelevant.)

You are repeating a prejudice about ageing. We all lose our ability to hear high frequencies with age. This does not affect our appreciation of  music per se because that is dependent on our ability to distinguish tiny timing differences between harmonics. Our ability to hear these timing differences does not necessarily deteriorate with age to the same extent as with high frequencies. You are slandering Michael Fremer along with all older people.

Yes Qobuz connect is great with MA3i. The Mconnect apps are crap as far as UI goes. 

@audphile1 I go to the MConnect app to do the updates, other then that I don’t.

@wswright20 

So, I'm an old guy with a 1,000 albums of some of my favorite music. Albums I've gone around the world to buy. Russian albums I can't even read. I have also bought several copies of certain albums to find the one that is right. I must admit, it's a kind of religion to me now. Getting up out of my chair to turn over the record. (You're not supposed to sit for more than a half hour without getting up.) 

I don't doubt that at some level a quality $$$$ digital front end might rival analogue. Rival in the sense that it would sound as good on its own terms. Maybe I am hanging onto the old Dodger Dog (the new ones are dreck) sitting in the bleachers in the days of Sandy Kofax. At my age, do I really want to give up my few nostalgias?

I am using an Innuos ZENith Mk3 streamer/server into a Border Patrol DAC. I think it rivals my Rega P10 and Aura phono stage. I still love my vinyl, but I don't feel like I'm missing anything when I'm streaming Qobuz.