I have read numerous posts regarding the relative importance of speaker quality vs other components in a system. Quite a few audiophiles out there believe speakers are the most important link and therefore should constitute the biggest expenditure. It seems to me that your source would be the most important given it’s the origin point. Speakers should faithfully reproduce the signal originating from the source, via the amplifier. My personal experiences seem to support this notion. Of course, any system is only as good as its weakest link, but I am curious why so many seem to subscribe to this belief. Interested in your thoughts.
spend 5 minutes with an end game system and you realize how little the DAC matters.
i use top of the line converters at work, but also have a $15 toslink to rca DAC from amazon if i want to watch something on the TV using the TV’s built in streaming apps.
i can toggle between the top of the line converters and the $15 dac with the press of a button, everything else being exactly the same.
the biggest difference is the noisefloor at the ends or beginnings of songs. There are some weird artifacts with the crappy dac. The difference in quality of the actual sound is incredibly minute.
now if by source you mean the recording itself, then yes, i would mostly agree.