speakers for 24/96 audio

BTW, I should have added to my previous post that I am in agreement with all of the technical points Kijanki has made, which I think have been very well presented. An additional point which I don't think has been mentioned is that brickwall anti-aliasing filters introduce some degree of ripple into the passband frequency response characteristics, as I understand it.

The audible significance of all of the effects that have been mentioned, though, is perhaps unanswerable in a definitive manner, given the extent to which those effects tend to be overshadowed by variability in recording engineering and quality.

Best regards,
-- Al

Amazon says unavailable, Al. Too bad.

Al,
Thank you. You brought very important point - quality of the recording engineering (on the top of compression issue that Shadorne mentioned). Average quality is not very high while some of the recordings I have are just incredibly good. Perhaps I'm arguing too much for the best case scenario while average quality of the recording was another reason for me to stay with 16/44 and Benchmark DAC1.

I checked recording as well - not available.

Mapman wrote "you definitely want very good, younger ears"

Oh yes, but where can I get it?

I dunno, Kijanki, I randomly looked at two good power amps in JA's testing, a Moon and a Pass, and they were both had measured s/n ratios of about -84db at 1 watt, which is actually excellent performance. You keep forgetting that most power amps have about 30db of gain. Measuring s/n ratio at full power is sort of cheating for marketing's sake. A speaker with 95db/2.83v/1m efficiency, like my old Legacy Focus, will let you hear the hiss from such an amp rather readily. So I still contend that for listening the amps are the limiting factor, not well implemented 16/44.

As for your comments about Nyquist, it would seem your real thesis is that digital reproduction isn't very good, even with a DAC1. I still wonder, why does it sound so good if you're correct? I'm missing something.