AI M,
I'm sorry if I misunderstood your post.
I agree with you about the importance of system synergy and can I assure you, I've spent long hours over the years trying to find the right combinations.
I just couldn't understand the need for you to mention a "price comparison...1/10th of the price" to make your point about synergy.
AFAIK, the beauty of system synergy lies in the art of finding and combining several different components together in a way to generate synergies in order to enhance the results from the whole.
It has nothing to do with the relative prices of each component.
Often you can obtain great results by mix and matching components of very different price segments.
I think we are not talking about ROI (return on investment) here.
Anyway I suggest we put this behind us and start listening and enjoying our systems.
PS I'm all ears to hear about ways to enhance the performance of my DAC even more!
I'm sorry if I misunderstood your post.
I agree with you about the importance of system synergy and can I assure you, I've spent long hours over the years trying to find the right combinations.
I just couldn't understand the need for you to mention a "price comparison...1/10th of the price" to make your point about synergy.
AFAIK, the beauty of system synergy lies in the art of finding and combining several different components together in a way to generate synergies in order to enhance the results from the whole.
It has nothing to do with the relative prices of each component.
Often you can obtain great results by mix and matching components of very different price segments.
I think we are not talking about ROI (return on investment) here.
Anyway I suggest we put this behind us and start listening and enjoying our systems.
PS I'm all ears to hear about ways to enhance the performance of my DAC even more!