Quack System Upgrades

Shadorne 12-26-2016
Good quality and well designed equipment should be highly sensitive and revealing of the source and not the wires used to connect equipment together. Audio 101 basics in design and quality.

Good point, Shadorne.  My perception has been that audiophiles often tend to overly conflate the ability of a component or system to resolve musical detail with its ability to resolve differences in hardware or tweaks.  Obviously there can often be some relation between the two, but assuming everything is of reasonably good quality the correlation between the two is far from perfect.  An obvious example illustrating that point is that a speaker having challenging impedance characteristics will tend to be more revealing of amplifier differences than one that is easy to drive, yet that says nothing about which speaker will provide better resolution of musical detail or better sound quality.

By the way, I've been meaning to say that it's good to see you back here lately. 

Best regards,
-- Al
   

Dave, "BSOD" applies to Windows-based computers, and stands for "Blue Screen of Death."  The blue screen + text that on many versions of Windows may appear when Windows itself has crashed, and the computer has to be rebooted. 

Best regards,
-- Al