I understand the "whole system design and integration" thing to some degree, but in a product design environment at least partly motivated by economic considerations, I'm not sure why you'd (HD) think that improvements couldn't be achieved by replacing components with higher grade substitutes?
Seems to me - non-engineer that I am - that a higher grade component of the same nature substituted in can only have 3 possible results: - better sound - worse sound - no difference and that only our ears can tell us whether we like the change, regardless of measured results. -- joncourage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ joncourage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles