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Josuah wrote:
 I'm also going to guess fibreKid has at least some decent gear to hear the difference, but you'd really want some good gear to clearly hear differences. I don't think I would be able to hear much difference on say an $800 receiver and $1500 speakers, but move to a $3k pre-pro and $8k speakers and it's a new experience. (Retail prices.) |
While it's true that usually, a higher price speaker system is usually superior to lower priced speaker system(
and of course, this is merely a statistical generalization - there are many cases where expensive speakers are no better than very cheap ones); it is not safe to assume the same statistical trend for many electronics, generally speaking. For example, it is often the case that when two solid state amplifiers of similar power ratings are compared in blinded, level matched comparisons, the results are usually no better than guessing, even if the price differential between the compared products is huge. The same goes for CD players or DACs in these types of comparisons. However, I am not aware on any information regarding the typical re-sample algorithm quality used in home stereo hardware.
-Chris