Let the Games Begin

Everything made a difference... Even cables...

But there is an order of magnitude in the priorities and S.Q. / cost ratio ...

But also each component  good or bad working cannot be replaced or compensated  by some improvement anywhere else either...

Then everything indeed make a difference...

We must adress our priorites by cost but also by importance...

Cable make a difference but nothing to be compared with acoustic disposition...

Very interesting video!

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I connected an older jukebox style Sony CDP-CX200 to my higher end stereo. I ran an optical cable through a two way optical switch to a Schiit Bifrost Uber (about 7 years old now) into my Musical Fidelity integrated amp. Surprisingly, it sounded very good?????

I compared it to my Jay’s Audio transport going into a Denafrips Pontus 12 anniversary DAC.

A very interesting video, it's educational for sure.....

Hearing is so weird. When I was working in the studios, I had the chance to work with one of the first Sony digital multitrack machines. I think it was 1” tape. We were all amazed that the playback off the tape was identical to the recording sound and we all pronounced it to be “better “. Later down the road many of us decided we liked the sound of analog multitrack with its added noise and compression. Go figure .