More money toward better speakers or a better DAC?


Speakers need quality content to play.  Great recordings sound very good on low end speakers.  Crappy recordings sound bad from great speakers.  Seems focus is well served on improving quality of incoming sound.  The Dac is a huge part of the equation.  
Are we all ‘cheaping’ out by not spending more for a better dac? 
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Showing 1 response by hilde45

OP, the way you pose your question makes it seem that you're looking for a prompt to go upgrade your DAC. It's your time and money -- and you could be guessing correctly, so why not try it? Otherwise, it's very hard to know.

On this forum, anyone can throw out the name of a component to swap out or a brand. The more important answer to your question would describe a process of elimination to help you identify where the weak link(s) are. Then, you could know if the speakers were the problem.

Steve Guttenberg has a good little piece about not changing your speakers too quickly. A lot here is old news to folks --how good is your power? is his main question, but he mentions other things, such as the DAC. https://youtu.be/7gXSvHDOjFs