Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ?

Dear IT guys claiming bits are bits

a) yes, I work for IBM too ;-)

b) yes bits are bits, agree

c) Agree, lots of snake oil with $1000 LAN cables...but thats nothing new in our hobby

d) And its not all Linux ;-) my windows server 2019 sounds better than Linux ;-)

But what happens when we print a doc, then scan, then print again? Are the two prints same?

So the conversion to Analog is the key, and ALL cables carry some other info than the 0s and 1s...a cpu doesnt care, but the DAC does, info on the groundplane and jitter adds info to the groundplane...thats the simplified explanation why it matters what happens in the digital domain ...just because you did not hear it, does not mean it does not exist ... ;-)

@mikhailark "The issue is in pure digital,"... music will ALWAYS be translated into analog...your ears cant consume flac file

@dogberry not sure how good an analogy a printer is, but using a computer, we are not aware imho, that we ONLY work in the digital domain, but music is ALWAYS analog... and the theory/hypoothesis is that some dirt might accumulate in the digital domain, which do not affect the 0 and 1s but the DAC in some ways