dac and streamer or seperates

OP, “ …I love vinyl, do tube DAC’s sound more liquid?”

In general yes. In my system the vinyl and digital ends sound the same (I carefully chose equipment to do that). Both detailed, but very natural and musical sounding.

Also, at my investment level I have invested about the same in each leg. Typically at much lower levels of investment and higher levels you must put a bit more into digital leg to have it perform at the same level as the analog end. Also, both my Phonostage and DAC are tubed.

Bits is bits.  That is the blessing of digital.  If you don't trust a computer to accurately transfer bits from one place to another, then you should be very, very worried about your bank account, because your money is nothing more than memory bits.

All the streaming  you need can be provided by a laptop PC, a USB cable and a USB DAC.  Done...  But guys like you have money to burn, so please spend it on foolishness.  

Watch Paul’s video on the topic:

https://youtu.be/ARVpOhkyalQ?feature=shared

Good post malbers. I really did not expect Paul to feel this way. Glad to have affirmation for my recent decision. 😀

@russbutton

Theoretically, you are correct. In the real world you are completely wrong. PCs sound terrible in comparison to dedicated streamers… and the better the streamer… the better the sound quality. Like night and day… not at all subtle.