I am a discriminating audiophile with pretty good hearing still, and I am quite happy with my $600 Bluesound Node, without using an external DAC and using wi-fi rather than an ethernet cable. It was easy to set up the streaming, but you need to control it from a smartphone. It was far more difficult to get it to connect with the music files on my computer, but I'm guessing that's not a concern for you?
You can plug the Node into your preamp and tape from it just as you would from any other source. If you want to hear new music or different performances of works you already have, streaming is a great way to do it. I subscribe to both Tidal and Qobuz for CD-quality or higher-resolution music, with no commercials. Each has some content the other doesn't have, with Tidal being stronger for popular music. With streaming you can also have access to hundreds of conventional and internet-only radio stations in any genre you can think of.