ftlight wrote: > Quoting this great comment on that thread: > > I don't quite understand why this kind of unfettered product pimping via > pseudoscientific "tests" is not called out here, and yet a thread "why > was CD 44.1kHz", with no inflammatory happenings and just informative > posts (with even links from one of the engineers at Philips) is deleted > without fanfare. > > I'm listening to BBC Radio 1 on my Yamaha receiver "net radio". The data > goes: > > 1. Through 1m of cat5e, > 2. To an ASUS wireless access point in bridge mode, > 3. Through WiFi 802.11a for about 25 feet to another floor, > 4. To a Belkin WiFi router with DD-WRT, also acting as a transparent > bridge and switch, > 5. Through a cat5e patch cable to a wall jack, > 6. Through another 15 feet of structured Cat5e riser cable to a basement > patch panel, > 7. Through another Cat5e patch cable to a D-Link managed gigabit > switch, > 8. Another patch cable to a firewall appliance running on a VMWare > virtual machine on a Dell Optiplex, > 9. Out another network adapter and patch cable to a Motorola cable > modem. > 10. Converted into DOCSYS3 and sent out through coax RG6 to a customer > termination block, > 11. Up the house pole, and across the street, where it is joined in with > the rest of the neighborhood cable plant, > 12. Likely to a neighborhood hybrid fiber/coaxial termination > transponder, > 13. Then via fiber to a cable company signal distribution hub and > headend, where it meets IP routers and many patch cables in the data > center, > 14. Routed from Portland to Seattle and then to Kansas city through > interstate fiber feeds and paired commercial connections, > 15. Received by a Lightwave Networks peering agreement router and then > ingressed into their content distribution network datacenter, > 16. Where a signal is sent to me that has been repeated from a coastal > fiber endpoint such as Mae East, and then has crossed the Atlantic via > an undersea fiber optic cable, > 17. and repeat this complexity backwards to get into the BBC to their > server farm, transcoding machines, digital studio workstations, serving > audio to DJs with a system like Prophet or Zetta off a digital music > datastore. > > Exactly what Ethernet cable is preventing me from hearing the music > exactly like it would be heard in the studio or in another country?
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