If you were serious about sound you would...

@mahgister Perfection in sound has nothing to do with this, I'm saying that the signal can't be better (more accurate) than the original. There is a limit to the accuracy of the playback the limit is the quality of the equipment doing the original recording and mix. Audiophiles often spend several hundred thousand easily on equipment but if you look at it in terms of using top recording studio equipment anything above a few hundred K is wast. I'm not talking about looks or room acoustics of course that has nothing to do with playback I'm talking about 170K$ audiophile preamps that are probably much better than any preamp that was used in the recording originally therefore wasted money. Hope that makes sense. 

@coralkong I'd like to ask you which of items on my equipment list are ridiculous. I assume you don't think the playback signal can be made better after it's been recorded so the limit on playback quality is the original equipment used. I'd like to know why you don't think the recording studio equipment isn't quality limiting? If I'm understanding your post correctly?

@lalitk I don't understand this

//“How is it possible to get better sound than the best recording studio gear? ”

For starters, buy a better preamp and amp and not settle with mid-fi gear like PS Audio. //

Can you explain to me how you can record something with a poor sounding preamp then use a higher quality preamp and make it better? This is why I've spent millions on my recording equipment over the years because it had to be the best, if a piece of equipment down the line could make the recording better I couldn't have charged so much for my recording equipment originally. 

I apologize because i misinterpreted your intention...

We think the same it seems...

@mahgister Perfection in sound has nothing to do with this, I’m saying that the signal can’t be better (more accurate) than the original. There is a limit to the accuracy of the playback the limit is the quality of the equipment doing the original recording and mix. Audiophiles often spend several hundred thousand easily on equipment but if you look at it in terms of using top recording studio equipment anything above a few hundred K is wast. I’m not talking about looks or room acoustics of course that has nothing to do with playback I’m talking about 170K$ audiophile preamps that are probably much better than any preamp that was used in the recording originally therefore wasted money. Hope that makes sense.