Bonzo, I've gone back and forth on how I view resolution. I have thought about it only in terms of information retrieval, that is how much information from the software gets read and later heard by the listener. But at other times, I think that attributes like soundstage, openness, "presence", are completely dependent upon the resolution of the component or system. I'm more of the latter opinion these days. As the resolution in my own system improves, most attributes like imaging, soundstage, presence, tone, and dynamics improve as well. They all seem to be related to resolution or more precisely, clarity, as was mentioned a few posts ago. Clarity is the one word that to me most distinguishes live orchestral sound from reproduced sound and it is what I most remember when thinking about what I hear at the BSO. And clarity is what increases when distortions, noise floor, artifacts diminish allowing one to hear more of what is imbedded in the grooves or pits or bits of our media.
I don't know how resolution will relate to Jeff's new system, but there we are. It's an interesting topic, perhaps deserving of its own thread.
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