Cross-talk and distortion, chief soundstage contributors...


In my continuing effort to learn about the "chemistry" of sound, I have recently been informed that it is significantly low (vanishing) distortion and avoiding crosstalk that supply the key sonic elements for deep, broad, tall, etc. soundstage... this, of course, is independent of speakers, pre-amp, cables, etc. I'm focusing on the amplifier, alone... Again, the issue here are the fundamental (amplifier) qualities involved in soundstage. Can anyone add some dimension to what I'm learning in this...

Thanks in advance,
listening99

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That makes no sense to me. Most high end DACs have very good reclocking if not buffer and reclocking such that external jitter sources make almost no difference and even if it did, an <$10 clock source with a tolerable power supply is essentially jitter free. Way less issue than anything you would do in the analog domain.  It's no different from things such as external oversamplers, etc 
We already started digital remember? There is no conversion. If you start with a digital source no analog crossover (signal level) will ever touch a digital crossover.