Why are so many people spending so much money to build “perfect” streaming system?

+1, @deadhead1000 on Bluesound Node recommendation, a de-facto standard for many physical media hard core aficionados. 

@dmader48

Thanks for sharing your inspiring journey from conventional playback to streaming. Anything is possible when you keep an open mind! 

I have learned long ago not to reason with folks like @jssmith and even OP. Its quite apparent from their posts that they are not here to learn or explore the true potential of streaming. It’s the same old stale mindset, bits are bits. 

@zlone

Great post! I concur with your experience on noise and jitter. I was quite surprised to hear the improvements brought forward by using a very accurate external clock with a high end streamer.

“but i'm hard pressed to see spending alot more for incremental improvements.”
@loomisjohnson 

Good to know you find your streaming outlay satisfactory. I am curious how much investment you have in your Turntable / Cart and phonostage? 

@loomisjohnson 

I fully understand the concept of diminishing returns, as long as you are happy with your system, nothing else matters. I am going to reiterate what @charles1dad said, 

Each one of us has their own level set points of performance/value ratio.

“Another sticking point is that streaming is dependent on hardware & software that, in my experience, just seems to go bad every so often, often without warning. ”
@edcyn

You been around here long enough to know consumer grade laptops are not the best way to stream music. A modest investment in a dedicated streamer like Node will give much more robust streaming hardware and app interface. And no one is saying you need to ditch the physical media playback, if you choose to stream music :-)