Quote Originally Posted by kbuech View Post
A transformation in rhythm, pace, emotional connection with the listener, musicality? Not in my experience. Those have been determined way earlier in the chain, I think at the source. Linn had it right with the LP12, I could easily demonstrate a marked improvement in Hi-Fi when I sold these in the 1980s. And Stan Beresford and others can demo this vast improvement with their "front-ends", DACs. IMHO of course.
MHO differs, I suppose. I don't particularly believe in PRaT, or the musicality of kit. Transformations in rhythm, pace and emotional connection with the listener are, in my view, the territory of musicians, not chips and valves, so I look for electronics that are as transparent as possible, and transducers that please my ears.

YMMV.

Tim