I’m in the same boat Roy.
I have a Pioneer streamer running Tidal HIFI and it’s all I use now, even sold my CD player. It’s so handy and sounds great.
I use the analogue outs of the streamer for everything except classical music for which I use the DAC in my preamp via the digital out from the streamer. The Pioneer streamer is punchier so suits my blues and country stuff the McIntosh DAC has great separation which suits classical, best of both worlds. Funny thing is they are both ESS Sabre DACs as far as I know.
Might be an idea if the Chord offers a different presentation.