It doesn’t come cheap, but I can recommend Roon[1] because it allows your music collection to blend between streaming providers (Tidal or Qobuz) and local files.
Their very good recommendation algorithm can expand your horizon and you can buy the music you really like while using the same playback experience (would be nice if they allowed you to buy and download music directly though).
Whenever I play music for myself, I care less about convenience and more about the overall emotional experience.
Vinyl means many things to me. It’s a reminder of my father’s collection, a memory from a visit to some new place that had a record shop, the proud of owning something tangible from an artist you love.
The premise is not rational at all to me.
However I have also spend a lot of time (and money) obsessing about the quality / condition of the vinyl, the cartridge setup and matching to the preamp and the overall turntable setup.
That part is a rather good mix of theory and manual adjustments, and honestly makes for a fun hobby on top of record collecting or music listening.
But yes vinyl can be frustrating. Receiving a poorly pressed disc only to have to return it kind of sucks.
Get yourself some DAC like a Topping D10s. This specific model can also convert USB to SPDIF coax or toslink to connect in your receiver, instead of RCA analog.
I'm already using HDMI for 7.1 uncompressed PCM. I need to configure my receiver as an extra display just so an audio signal can piggyback off it. Thus, my desire for a simple USB connection.
I'm pretty sure my motherboard has SPDIF optical out, but SPDIF would be a downgrade since it only supports compressed 7.1 or uncompressed stereo.
We are pushing strongly on a new UI Framework which borrows the best ideas from industry standards (DOM, WPF, Qt...) while taking in account the unique requirements of a well established game engine.
We have released a first version in 2019 and now looking at supporting common game dev. use cases.
We have tons of challenges in API design, algorithms, rendering, performance, platform compatibility...
If you want to learn more reach out to me : antoine [at] unity3d.com
We are pushing strongly on a new UI Framework which borrows the best ideas from industry standards (DOM, WPF, Qt...) while taking in account the unique requirements of a well established game engine.
We have released a first version in 2019 and now looking at supporting common game dev. use cases.
We have tons of challenges in API design, algorithms, rendering, performance, platform compatibility...
If you want to learn more reach out to me : antoine [at] unity3d.com
Their very good recommendation algorithm can expand your horizon and you can buy the music you really like while using the same playback experience (would be nice if they allowed you to buy and download music directly though).
[1] https://roon.app/en/