Trevor, not sure your referring to what I wrote … the point I’m trying to make is that it’s hard to buy a terrible ‘front end” these day.
Most use their phones and are very happy. Even over Bluetooth which definitely is limiting … it’s listenable.
All preamp and receivers that I’ve heard to date are good enough to be listenable.
Think as a group we often confuse a listenable system with a top notch audiophile one.
Some talk like only a top notch one is any good.
Now, there is an other kind of sound … just bad … it’s not subtle….
Clipping more then lightly Is not, IMO, listenable. Bad speakers can also produce very poor quality sound.
The difference between bad & listenable is a bigger gap in my mind than listenable & audiophile quality.
The audiophile sound is what we are striving for. The degrees of listenable is what we get till we achieve it.
Last edited by rrlev; 01/12/22 07:57 PM.
