Apologies accepted. I can totally understand. I'm an engineer gone audiophile, then i reinvented how i engineer... i started hearing everything differently.. Never went to school for this. I grew up on the cusp of the digital age. I got into it like everyone. Then one day I went back, got an audiophile quality TT setup, pulled out my favorite albums from childhood - Kiss, Thin Lizzy, Zep, Judas Priest, and i realized i forgot what everyone forgot - how much better things sounded before digital - before the loudness wars - before "ultramaximizers".. And now my studio is a mix of pro studio and audiophile gear.
Bit of a mad scientist workspace in the making.
I still use some digital. I developed my own AD conversion technique too. I kept playing with it until at 44/16 the hairs on my arm still stood up like they did when i listened to the vinyl. Now, they didn't stand up as much as they did when I listened to the vinyl, but if they stood up at all, I knew I had a method to keep.
With that said, thats why I want the revox.
Nick