Which component do you think makes the most difference in your system? The conventional wisdom on that question has varied over time. In the early days of hi-fi, it was thought to be the speakers. And that’s totally understandable.
After all, they are the things that actually turn the electronic music signal into the sound waves we hear – so they must be the most important part of a system, right? Well, not if you asked the exact same question in the 1980s and 1990s. At that point in
