Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles?

No geoffkait, you are only discrediting yourself. I doubt you will ever see that though. Those that buy into your abuse and deflections are lost anyway, but they don't represent anywhere near the majority. It appears you have never really grown up from being the class clown. I guess you never realized that most of the time people were laughing at you, not with you.

geoffkait22,708 posts06-15-2020 1:31pmYes, you’re right, robberrttddidd, I’m discrediting the other person. How perceptive of you! 👀

I have one word for your posts, robberrttddidd. Booooring!

DAC structure as it has two sides - digital and analog... if you say that all errors are corrected - in analog side some errors are made again. 
Maybe one day we'll have chip in the head and we can pass the ears until then nobody is perfect.  

Forget about the DAC for a second. Most of the errors are made in the transport and simply passed on to the DAC. Buffering the data won’t help because the errors occur when the laser tries to read the nanoscale data spiral. The errors occur in the first picosecond. The errors are buffered right along with everything else. I’m not saying some DACs are not better than others. It’s just that DACs aren’t smart enough to know when they’re being fed garbage. Garbage in/garbage out. 🔄