In article , housetrained
wrote:
Rubbish in, rubbish out. No matter how good the speakers are they can
only reproduce what they get. Rubbish in, rubbish out. Front end is
ALWAYS the most important.

ahem I'm afraid the above is rather misleading. Shows the error of
thinking in slogans. :-)

The reality is that most CD players produce quite similar results. Whereas,
speakers differ quite a great deal. Thus, regardless of the above slogans,
experience tends to be as Serge has outlined.

Of course, if you go out of your way to deliberately play CDs that are
'rubbish' then I doubt the rest of the system will help much... except
perhaps the 'eject' button. ;-

What matters is to ensure that the entire 'chain' of components are of
decent performance. Experience is that this tends to be much easier and
cheaper to obtain with a CD player than with speakers

BTW It was convenient that you put all the quoting in your sig when you
top-posted. Saved me having to re-arrange things. Can instead simply say I
agree with Serge. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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