Whats interesting to me is that wars are fought and mega $ spent over marginal differences introduced by well understood and low tech devices that have reached engineering maturity: cables, power supplies, CD players, DAC, op AMPs, For these kinds of devices once you spend 3 times more than the cheapo version you are 99% there. As you know the additional .9% (or whatever) requires an additional x100 cost multiplier. I submit that, unless you take pleasure in departing from your hard earned income, it is not worthed. Note that I am not condemning the pursuit of Audio Nirvana (or any other dream you may have). What I am condemning is that lack of creativity and innovation takes away resources that would provide real, unquestionable leap forwards in the music enjoyment area . The innovative Slimbox is unquestionable better than any CD player: no CDs to juggle. Try to change CDs when blindfolded exactly, cannot beat that! Let see what I would do with $7000: $3000 DEQX PDC - 2.6P $2000 on additional amps for the tri-amp $500 Network Attached Storage RAID server (with slimserver) $500 Room acoustic improvements $500 Wifi PDA as a "remote" $500 to the wife (helps the sound. Trust me) I submit that digital active crossover, room correction, and a dedicated amp per driver will be easily recognized by the most blind of tester: flatter and wider (more natural) frequency response, much higher dampening (clean sound), much higher dynamic (realistic: 1812 Telarc cannons). With all the big ticket items to explore out there why do we still talk about cables and power supplies?
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