$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash

Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by xxpor on Monday January 03, 2022 @11:47AM (#29782725)

At least with those things, there's the theoretical possibility that there's a difference though.

Why is it so hard to convince people that on the digital side of the equation, there's an objective right or wrong answer, and it's impossible to get any better than an exact copy of the bits?

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by kevinmchugh on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:06PM (#29783037)

Audiophiles aren't concerned with just the signal being reproduced faithfully - it has to happen without side effects. You're talking past each other if you don't address that.

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by tomc1985 on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:16PM (#29783199)

But ultimately that means a clean digital pipeline and high quality D/A converters before it hits an actual speaker. The thing is... unless there are unnecessary conversions (making the signal less than bitperfect), there is no point for a lot of the digital side of this

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by jstanley on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:30PM (#29783415)

What kind of side effects are you talking about?

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Re:$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles f... by ncmncm on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:38PM (#29788682)

Side effects like power consumed from the grid? Heat voided into the room? Gravitational attraction from the heavy case? Money draining from their account?

They get all of that.

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