I'm on board with Willyroo... 'cept I'm even nuttier than he is. Vinyl? Feh... gimme 15-30IPS reels. Nothing beats a master tape (or a safety copy). As for "unmeasurable" differences... I believe all differences are quantifiable. I further believe we don't know how to quantify them yet, can't measure them yet, or simply aren't looking at/measuring the proper variable. There's more to sound than a frequency range and power measurements.

As for the audio-MP3 box... it'd be pretty useful! I'm not gonna drop $2k on it yet. I'll get one eventually though. I already have a decent library of vinyl and reels encoded at 96/24 for travel and it'd be nice to be able to play that back elsewhere in the house.

On why it doesn't have GigE... why does it NEED it??? 192Khz/24 bit is 4.6Mbps/channel. Even with SIX channels you'd not swamp a 100Mbps link. Two channels will work over 802.11g.