Is using streaming services worthy of an audiophile?

I tried Tidal. It sounds like a 30 year old Denon CD player. I enjoyed that CD player. It was my first, but it is not good enough for my system or ears. 

If anyone has really good, neutral sounding components and likes Tidal, etc. please tell me what you use to receice their signal. I find it to be worse than a bent and worn Shure M91ED cartridge. Seriously, I dug an old one up (to play with my unipivot arm by biasing it crookedly counter to the bend, before trying this with my bent Supex Mark IV) and compared them.