What really kills me is how often people debate the comparative differences between bits of kit that will in reality have little impact on the overall reproduction of music. While it is true the source matters and its quality cannot be exceeded in playback, its is also true that the acoustic components of the playback equation immediatly swamp the entire reproduction experience.
Your speakers, placement and room dimensions, contents and treatment are major, major elements of the percieved sound reproduction. It's really silly to hear someone talking about how some DAC/preamp/amp sounds "harsh" or "fatiquing" when the listening space is an assymetical collection brick, glass, drywall and non-existent (open to the rest of the house) surfaces. What folly. After years working in recording studios and video editing facilities I've found that it's not that hard to come up with a room treament that has acceptable WAF and creates a decent listening space. Not ideal, but pretty good. In such a space even commonplace, inexpensive gear can sound very good. Michael -- mgraves ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mgraves's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4078 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22000 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
