Is using streaming services worthy of an audiophile?

Also not sure what "lose control of all your music" means? All of "my" music is at my fingertips on a NAS drive and I can play anything I want from Tidal as well.  I would call that much better "control" of my music and much more convenience.

Tidal is fantastic.  Tidal is also a good tool to find new vinyl, listen before you buy.

I can get sensational sound quality from steaming Tidal's upper quality service

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Tidal is fantastic.  Tidal is also a good tool to find new vinyl

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"  Tidal is also a good tool to find new vinyl, listen before you buy. "

That is ridiculous Tidal is exclusively and solely a digital service you obviously have no idea how audio works or you would not make this claim. There is no way to tell from a digital stream how a "vinyl" as you say would sound because very often the "vinyl" is mastered from a different source than the file for the digital stream and even if the "vinyl" was made from the same file there is no way to know anything meaningful at all about the quality of the actual "vinyl" pressing that you might choose to purchase because of course the quality of vinyl pressings very widely.

@clearthink...I interpreted this is mean "if you like the album, (songs, music, etc) then you can buy the vinyl copy.

I did this all the time with CDs.  If I was interested in the artist/title, I would buy the CD, if I liked the CD, I would purchase it on vinyl.

Tidal has eliminated the "CD" step.  I haven't bought a CD in a couple of years.  I listen to it on Tidal, if I like it, I'll buy the LP.

YMMV