Why not more wireless connections?

There are times when convenience is useful.  It is never paramount.  I don't stream, I've got more LP's and CD's than I can ever listen to.  When not listening intently I prefer as much silence as I can get, and that includes the AC and the rooftop exhaust fan.  When I listen I focus on the sound, on the music.  I just finished listening to an album of stuff from Zimbabwe in the 80's. Last night it was Carl Nielsen"s Sixth Symphony.  I listen to these things like an explorer, always discovering new stuff.  Having background music in a car makes me crazy. Bottom line:  what other people do is fine with me but that's not where I am. If I had all my equipment hardwired within one box that is what I would do.  I'm not going to send the music to the speakers by radio.  I'm not going to take an analog signal. digitize it, then reassemble it. For internet radio, sure.  Otherwise, life is too short. I'm not arguing against convenience.  Sometimes that is necessary.  But to me, throwback as I am, the very concept of a server is anathema.  I know that stuff sounds pretty good, or can.  But joining the digital milieu is not my gig.  My AirPods?  Good for noise suppression when they reroofed the house, or for calls when going for a walk. Hard to take the stereo with you!

Personally, I'm just a lot more comfortable with wires and cable that I can see as opposed to wireless, which I can't. I still have a landline in addition to my mobile. I like plugging in cables/connectors. 

Analog wireless is fraught with interference problems as far as I know, and WiFi is a digital conversion, so if your system is analog doesn’t WiFi introduce two more DACs into the chain? Maybe I’m mistaken, but if this is true, we all know how much people spend on a great DAC.

Regarding all in 1 streamers, I forgot to note the Cambridge Audio Evo supports Bluetooth output connectivity to speakers as well, so possible to be totally wireless streaming with that kind of “future-fi” device. Toss in the latest cd res Bluetooth protocols and you are golden there in terms of matching what is possible with CDs historically.  High res beyond cd is nice but has significant diminishing returns.  I’d be hard pressed to distinguish most CD res recordings from alternate high res options.  The science that went into defining CD res as suitable for a hifi digital standard (Nyquist  Theorum) many years ago turned out to be quite solid. 

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Aurender has introduced the new N50 which is a three box solution and cost $38K. These devices may be operated off a wifi extender and give sound quality comparable to an analog system of similar cost ... The lure that has made these "wireless" devices possible ...

Just to be clear, I'm pretty sure none of the Aurender streamers are truly "wireless." Rather, they're designed for wired ethernet. To get them to work wirelessly, a wifi dongle is required, or you need to run ethernet cable from the wifi router or extender. For some of us, that's rather like a kludge. I think there's a reason Aurender doesn't include wifi capability, even on an apparently "cost no object" 38K component.