Funny how streaming/digital still chases that analog benchmark.

has2be,

Where have you been for the past 25-30 years ?

Almost all analog since the 90's is first recorded digitally.  Ask recording engineers if you have any doubt.

When you listen to what you think is analog, you are actually listening to a digital recording which has been converted to analog.

Digital *IS* better.

Only the nostalgic oldies are chasing the old analog sound.  People living in the 21st century are not.

I have converted to digital and never looked back.  I do have an old Linn Sondek but I like its LOOKS more than its sound.  It is never able to come up to the dynamics and clarity of the digital sound.

The clean, crisp and noise free sound and the ease of use of digital will beat 99% analogs hands down these days.  Maybe not the ones costing over $50k or $60k, but then again, 99% of the people cannot afford that and it is irrelevant.

lexx21,

I am sure your vinyl sounds perfect :-)
But do not forget that is the RIAA circuits doing all the corrections for you, not the vinyl itself.

lexx21,

You are getting ME confused with Audio2design.....
I did not say anything

lexx21

Do you remember what edisms does in IOS :-) ?

@larry5729,

I totally agree with you and you are not deaf, the ones who hear superior sound from vinyl are in denial and in nostalgia.

Vinyl by design and laws of physics, can NOT record base frequencies and hence need trickery like RIAA curve matching to get it to barely sound reasonable.  The magic is always in the phono preamp & the RIAA filters.

Get one proper DAC and you are done, you can listen to the original recording 5000 miles away without losing a single bit.

lexx21

Exactly....
I worked mostly on cat6k data plane running IOS.
I do not think they support it any more..

Audiophile network switches are snake oil. A $35 netgear learning bridge will do EXACTLY the same thing. Packets whizz around at 10 Gbits/sec on these guys, you think they need to introduce anything special for 300kHz at best.

What a joke...

Before you say anything, I do work for Broadcom as a senior software engineer and we design almost 80% of the routing & bridging chips in the world, and I do know how they work.

All you need to make sure is that you keep them (especially the walwart power supply) away from sensitive phono lines, that is all.

@lexx21,

IOS as the Apple's operating system or the old Cisco operating system before their Nexus class of routers ?