Which part of the audio chain causes most harm/ smearing? Transport? DAC? Preamp? Amps?
Or is it the Speaker? The drivers in the speaker? crossovers?
(Ok, if you got big cojones, say cables, but back it up!)
How about looking at it from a source perspective. I would think it would be very difficult to record cleanly and without compression.
Rob
Room treatment and speaker placement plays a major role here, considering everything else is in balance and synergistic.
My ears.....
And another's, also ...in the end, it ALL matters...but personally, i never understood the complexity of some of my music until the speakers were able to effortlessly delineate all the mutliple instruments, dynamics, microdynamic shadings, volume, power, etc without creating a a fuss. then, i began to understand...which partly led me to a more powerful amp that drove them better (that, and the fact that the other amp was in for repair so often).
just one man's experience.
What's a complex passage?
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