Quote Originally Posted by musicoverall
New name for an old familiar term! A most disagreeable phenomenon, to be sure!

I don't disagree that the source needs to pass all the information and the signal down the chain can only be made worse, etc. I'm just saying that the source components (as opposed to the source software) have less of a distance to travel to perfection than do the speakers. A lesser CD player will deliver most of the sonic goods while lesser speakers will mask what is upstream, no matter how good it is.
A marvelous technician and set-up man, he set up the LP-12 better than anyone I've known, unfortunately I've lost track of him, named Michael Frazier refers to SS as trans"piss"tors. I don't necessarily agree. But transistoritis is alive and well. I do agree that lesser speakers will mask what is upstream of them, thus my comment about resolution, this doesn't change the fact that you still need to get the info especially out of the LP or, less so, the CD.

I agree, speakers are the weak link to our ears, that is the nature of a transducer. Thus it is more difficult to get vinyl right (a damned sight more expensive also) than it is to get digital to sound okay.