You bet I will post pictures, I am friends with 2 recording engineers and they always making fun to me, because they say you audiophiles don't want to equalize or DSP but you don't realize that we equalize and DSP the hell out of every recording we work on and most of the best studio monitors are Digital and use DSP, lol I think he have a point. My personal opinion is that yes there is something special about analog! But I got tired of spending thousands equalizing my audio system by changing cables, replacing components or by buying the latest tweaks, is a very expensive and unpredictable way to fine tune your system, you want to fine tune or equalize your system buy an equalizer not 10 different pairs of interconnects lol.
What's done during mixing and what is done during playback is completely different things. They record in in a digital domain and they alter it or EQ it still in the same domain. That is not the issue. The issue is converting it to analog. And most of those recording engineers and the guys doing the mixing never hear what they have recorded. At least they never hear it played back at a level most of the audiophiles out there can recreate it.
Consider that a decent D/A converter will cost somewhere in the $1,000. And most of the great bang for the buck high quality D/A converters are in the $2,000 to $3,000 range. Then there is the elite units that are upwards of $20,000 to $30,000. And that is just for two channels of output. Take that same $2,000 DAC and multiply that times six or eight channels and you are in the $8,000 to $10,000 range real quick and that doesn't even include the digital processing and software used for manipulation. So it is kind of naive to think that you can get the whole package and have great sound for a few hundred dollars.
The DEQX is what I'd consider a good mid-fi level piece if gear and it is in the $4,500 range or more.
Rich Hollis has the best out there that I have heard and the only one that I'd consider a high end unit right now, and I think it is about half of the cost of the DEQX unit. So right now it is the best that I know of and the only piece of gear of its kind that I recommend.