JonFrum:

If I'm paying that much money - and I'm not - I certainly wouldn't start with degraded digital signal. I'm happy to listen to music on my laptop, but then I'm not paying monthly fees for it.

Digital signals aren't necessarily "degraded." Its perfectly possible to get a complete reconstruction of an analog signal from a digital as long as it was sampled at the nyquist frequency and losslessly compressed.

Digital can actually be of better quality too if we are talking about music being transmitted (e.g. a radio receiver) since you can apply error correction methods.

Although the most pure audio equipment is still analog equipment, digial equipment does have its place, especially if you need to apply post processing effects to reduce unwanted noise in the original signal.