adamslim;222719 Wrote: > That's right. On a $2k device they decided that it just wasn't worth > spending more than a tenth of a cent on the final resistor, thus > hopelessly crippling the sound and rendering it scarcely worthy of the > tag fidelity, whether high or not. > > OR - there really isn't much that can go wrong with a resistor (unlike > a volume pot, which has movable contacts), so cheap ones provide > 99.999999999% of the performance of expensive ones, and no-one can > actually hear the difference as it's all placebo. > > Take your pick; remember that mileage varies :) > > Adam
I'd leave that high horse behind if I were you Adam... resistors in the final analogue output stages certainly can affect the sound. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... ...SB3+TACT+Altmann+MF DACXV3/Linn tri-amped Aktiv 5.1 system and some very expensive cables ;o) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37860 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
