Not totally analogous, but streaming is still early in its maturity and might be comparable to CD vs vinyl 20 years ago. You could get great CD sound but it still felt like you had to get a bit lucky with the setup and/or shell out a lot of money. (Let’s put aside the fact that people are dusting off their 30 year old NOS players now. No one is gonna do that for an old Intel NUC in 20 years!) Meanwhile, vinyl had already been reliably musical for generations. But we still used CD because of the catalog and the convenience, and the sound was still pretty good. similarly there’s no beating the convenience of streaming - I listen to music at least 4x more because of it. So I’ll still do the majority of my playback on it, but as others have said I might re-invest a bit in CD and wait-and-see with streaming. Certainly $10k on a server seems like a poor investment - not to criticize those who do, it’s all about the ROI for you personally. In my case it probably isn’t high enough and I have other things to spend money on. But I certainly look forward to the time when streaming effortlessly surpasses CD in SQ.