By genre only. I have folders for each of them and each file has the tag of that genre.

The difference is pretty much in the power supply and analog output.

Mostly electronic music, progressive/organic/melodic house, trance, drum n bass.

I buy vinyl (even stuff released today) because having the music on a physical media with a nice cover gives more quality and value to it. I don’t believe in the superiority of vinyl as a medium, but I always found it fascinating.

3 way with separate subs

I said it multiple times, amps should not have a sound. If they do, they’re badly designed.

A well designed ported sub will sound tight, flat and effortless. I built a pair and they sound amazing. The only benefit of a sealed sub is smaller enclosure and easier design/build if DIYed.

Even cheap amps, dacs, preamps etc are good. Meanwhile, speakers are a complex piece of electromechanical equipment where everything can go wrong, the drivers, the topology, the box, the crossover, placement, room, your ears.

Either purchase from online stores or download from tidal using an app.

Symfonium + uPnP/DLNA

I still buy vinyl records for the experience of having music that’s collectible and palpable. I do mostly stream, but physical media gives more quality to music.

Personally I would never go back to passive speakers.

Do you NEED more boxes?

Those high sample rates/bit depths in DACs are pretty much a “just because we can” thing. They’ve gotten so cheap and well made that those numbers are easily achievable. Tidal with 16/44 losless is absolutely fine.

You’ll probably be better with Tidal, but if you’re contemplating on building a music server it’s well worth. I hate that music just disappears from music services without notice, so you don’t really have any control over your library.

The classic linear amplifiers are well studied and things have improved over time as semiconductor technology has. If this improvement translates in better sound is debatable, I’d say that better passive components and power supplies improve sound much more. Class D is another story, it’s a rapidly evolving technology.

Yes. I built my system tuned to today’s music, which is pretty loud and hits hard in the bass region. But all the old (pre-90s) music sounds thin. I’m not really a bass head, I like it tuned just right so it’s not overwhelming. Some remastered versions solve this, but not all.

Why would you do that when you can buy a cheap PC and a better DAC and still have money left to improve something else in your setup?