Poll: Most impactful component

Given all the technological advances over the years, audiophiles have very different perspectives on equipment.

This likely reopens an age old debate, but which component has the most potential to improve a stereo system? Or can it?

If you could upgrade one component to take your system to the next level which one would get the investment? Speakers? DAC? Pre? Source?

Or is this the holy grail that no one can achieve?

tee_dee05-19-2023 2:24am

therandyman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 33 posts 05-20-2023 at 09:29am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete If you have not yet experienced it, give BACCH a try. It will improve any system, no matter the weakest link. Pretty amazing.
therandyman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 33 posts 05-20-2023 at 12:10pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I bought BACCH4Mac, which cost about $7500, including a new Mac Mini computer with 16 GB Ram. That includes a camera for head tracking. A system without the head tracking is much less expensive. It eliminates crosstalk between your ears. The effect is that on well-recorded material, the soundstage is hugely widened and deepened. For example, on a 1958 Sonny Stitt record of a jazz quartet, in my listening room the sax is in the kitchen and the drums are outside the house! This is without adding any distortion.