hakunamakaka
1000+ Head-Fier
Streaming service is bigger, but it doesn’t do the job with music that I look for. Each streaming service has their own watermarks, spotify/apple is not good regards size of their library, others even worse…youtube is actually best bet, but you end up with home made vinyl rip’s and tracks removed due to copyright. Well mastered music do sound amazing on LP’s and you would be surprised on the amount of it not present in digital format. Let’s just not go there. I’m happy that digital fits all your needs.Streaming has much more selection than your LP collection. I have tens of thousands of records myself, but I’d never go back to that exclusively. Digital sounds better, it’s more convenient, it’s less expensive, and there’s a huge library of music available. I can fit my music library in a shirt pocket and play it on the go with the same sound I get at home. No hiss, no crackle, so skips in records, and no inner groove distortion.
You can certainly add coloration to your personal taste, it’s just more practical to do that just before the amplification stage so the coloration is applied consistently across all your sources; and it’s best done by a DSP where you can precisely dial in exactly the type and amount of signal degradation you want.
The best way is to get the sound that you enjoy straight out of box without any trickery either it’s HP’s or speakers. Don’t see any issues if you can push sound towards your liking with the button press or with certain DAC. Not everyone has time and energy to learn nuances of DSP