Analogies are never that great, but hopefully you will concentrate on the point I'm trying to make, rather than just trying to pick holes in the analogy.
The reason that source quality is more important than speaker quality, even though the latter is much more obvious and easier to hear, is akin to the reason that a reproduction of a great painting, with the brush strokes and the detail accurately represented but with the colour reproduction slightly off, will ultimately be more satisfying that a reproduction of the same painting with lower resolution but accurate colour. Whilst the latter may be superficially more acceptable, ultimately it won't get you close to the artist's intentions and keep you interested for very long. I don't think the source first principle has ever been discredited; if anything has, it is just the numerical percentage split of your budget source first advocates used to say you should allocate to each component. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36994 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
