Is using streaming services worthy of an audiophile?


I read that a lot of people on this forum use Tidal etc. Is this ok from audiophile perspective? I mean, do people who use such services actually know what quality is streamed? Don’t you lose all control over your music when you surrender to streaming services?
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Showing 1 response by clearthink

"  Tidal is also a good tool to find new vinyl, listen before you buy. "

That is ridiculous Tidal is exclusively and solely a digital service you obviously have no idea how audio works or you would not make this claim. There is no way to tell from a digital stream how a "vinyl" as you say would sound because very often the "vinyl" is mastered from a different source than the file for the digital stream and even if the "vinyl" was made from the same file there is no way to know anything meaningful at all about the quality of the actual "vinyl" pressing that you might choose to purchase because of course the quality of vinyl pressings very widely.