Yay or Nay

when using the word "improvement", without specifying the nature of improvement is so subjective as to have little utility.

never assume what someone considers as "better". one person's "rupture" is another person's rapture.

it is more useful to be specify expected changes in sound than to use an adjective such as "lateral", "different" or "improvement".

hi tvad:

i remember one of the basic tenets of human behavior, namely, do no harm. one should never assume anything, including definitions.

while i may have not shed any useful information regarding the topic of this thread, i have not introduced any ambiguity or done any harm.

it is perhaps a tad more time consuming to specify the nature of an improvement, than to use the word and not state what you mean.

implying that audiophiles understand what is meant by the word improvement is an opinion, which is both probably true and probably false.

since i am not an audiophile, have not been an audiophile and never will be one, perhaps you can enlighten me as to what you mean by "improvement". you will thus do a good deed and free me from my ignorance.

hi tvad:

here is an answer to the question posed in the threadL

the question can only be answered by the questioner, after a comparison of the two components in question have been auditioned for some duration.

all other answers are merely speculations, which expose the questioner to some risk, if a purchasing decision is made, without hands on experience.