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in my experience, JUST THE OPPOSITE!!!

I have compared SACD through many systems, from a cheap pioneer universal player connected through a rega amp and LS3/5a's to a fully tweaked EMM labs source via prime speakers/amps in a treated room.

One one would expect, it is through the transparent and unobscured conduits of the best systems that all the extra resolution stored in good DSD recordings manifests itself gloriously, resulting in awesome reproduction that has CD playback running under the table and crying uncle, wetting its pants. It is also through the most transparent systems where you can hear more clearly how limited CD playback is: the dynamic cut off ceiling above which the music cannot rise and breathe, the monochromatic sameness of timbral colour, the lack of expressive flow etc. etc.

For lower resolution systems, this contrast seems to me equalised somewhat, not only because the "sins" of lower cost systems seem to mingle with and somewhat obscure the "sins" of 16/44 playback but the limited ability of such a system limits the resolution of the extra musical information latent in good SACD software.


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