In Reply to: Not really... posted by MCH on April 7, 2003 at 08:40:58:
Yes speakers are indeed very important. My 3.5ft high TDL RTL-3’s vertically-stacked drivers for deep-bass, midrange and high-frequency, do a fantastic job with CD of keeping the stereo soundstage as defined as possible.And regarding my CD source, by keeping my existing multibit offboard DAC (Audio-Alchemy) for my CD listening, I now use my Denon DVD-3800 as the transport input via SP/DIF, and the imaging & soundstaging improvement I get (compared with an old Marantz CD transport) is very noticeable indeed.
I suspect the Denon’s SP/DIF output feed is much more accurate than the Marantz’s was, partly because everything now goes through the Denon’s error-correction RAM buffer prior to output, and the subsequent timing of serial data release, ‘bit-by-bit’ can be extremely tightly controlled, resulting in hardly any jitter.
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- Soundstaging -- speakers & CD source . . . - Martin says 02:36:09 04/08/03 (0)