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To: ajtj99 who wrote (95758)	10/12/2025 6:08:59 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 96724

Me too. I was an audiophile too. But I realized that emphasis on CD/vinyl/cassette was a marketing hoax. In order of importance, it goes like this: Your room acoustics, your speakers response and imaging, your pre-amp, then whether or not you are using using CD or something else. Obviously I am discussing the normal situation. If you have garbage coming in, then you will have garbage going out. But your speakers and room acoustics have a much bigger impact on what you hear than whether or not you used a CD vs quality cassette. Similarly, there is an order of magnitude difference between having superb speakers and average amp vs world class amp and average speakers. The former beats down the latter every time because speakers are/were far noisier than amps. Also, little appreciated is importance of imaging (which can also be affected by the room). If you have great imaging and above average speakers, you will have a much better experience than if you have great speakers and above average imaging. This is because most people can't distinguish the frequency response well enough to discriminate between good and great speakers. But they can distinguish between the left and right ear getting out of phase sound.