Why I sold my $50,000 DAC ...

@ Deep_333 lets not forget D&B also as i have worked with all the major line array systems

being  a sound person in professional Concert  P.A Systems, also anyone  else that has been there a while remembers the Old S4 speakers at aprox 425 lbs ea. not to mention the new sttyle Digital Mixing boards and amp racks that are adjusted just by changing the IP addressing in unnder 10 minutes.

Room treatments, set up and synergy, the 3 main ingredients necessary for good sound IMO. 

Great read, and oh so true!

I think I have said it over 1599 times...the room is as important as the gear.

Great discussion. Have  alot of pro audio equipment like crown, jbl , electrovoice, ect. I have 12000 k crown amps and line arrays.i understand room treatments but it hard to do that in a outside venue.whatever you have enjoy the music.