Quote Originally Posted by E-Stat
Please define "usable performance". I've yet to hear a system better than mine where the audible improvements were not "usable".

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Define your view of audible improvement. Is it to reproduce the chain without audible coloration of the signal, or to your own personal taste? (Since it is impossible to reproduce the exact situation of every recording studio in the world, the perfect recreation of the signal as it was heard in the recording studio is not possible.)