What one product has redefined music for you??

I agree that electrostatics were also an eye opener for me, and probably the best product i had ever come across. However,there is that other fine line which they did not quite cross over. The ability to unravel like never before all the important musical messages that make up a piece of music with the right emphasis on timing tone dynamics that make up each and every note which then brings forth the cohesive piece all correctly ordered as per the original. When I heard this then the startle factor was probably as much if not more than when i listened to the Quad electrostatics. I know of no other speaker that has transcended hifi in such a way.

MAPMAN, I have been realising more and more in recent years that studio /professional audio is as good if not better than home HIfi. They appear to be generally a lot cheaper than home hifi and often have the ability to be far more neutral and accurate sounding than its counterparts. I am now taking note of equipment such as equalisers that I would have frowned upon several years ago.

In 1974 at age 14. I had a demo of the Klipsh La Scalas. at Harvey Electronics on 45th Street(RIP) Playing Stevie Wonders Is'nt she Lovely very loudly. I was hooked on high end audio for sure after that.

Ohm F loudspeaker.

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

Audiojoy4,

It would be hard to come up with good recordings if not I would think. If the stuff used to make and monitor the recordings were not good, that would surely cramp the home listener's style. Having good home equipment might be considered overkill.

The dbx is an old school analog device that was popular and sold commonly in home audio shops mainly in the pre-digital analogue days, along with tuners, phonos, and tape players. They can be had used these days for just a few hundred dollars and a properly functioning unit will work even better with digital sources when needed.

That's not to say that there are not other probably superior newer digital domain processing devices out these days that can provide greater flexibility and effectiveness when applied correctly.

I'm convinced that a lot of the magic associated with the better digital players, the DCS of the world for example, has to do with how the raw data coming from the source is processed in the digital domain. I haven't had the time to experiment, but I'm certain there are excellent outboard digital processors available to anyone today capable of applying various noise filtering and signal enhancement algorithms to digital sources in a similar manner at lower cost for those adventurous enough to give it a try. Playing with digital signal processing devices on my system is on my list of things to do someday when I have the chance.