OK, as we are discussing the relative merit of apodising in 5200's here are my observations. When I had my old style 5200's I upgraded the firmware to obtain the apodising filter along with other crossover tweaks. Running a non upsampled signal from my G68 to obtain 'apodising' gave a rather 'flat' feeling to the sound. Feeding an upsampled feed seemed to give a bit more life to the music, but of course, no apodising. Of the two I preferred the upsampled sound so did not really benefit from apodising. When I changed my system to a full SL version with a G61SL and could output both an upsampled and apodised feed to the 5200 SL's there was a definite improvement to the sound I was then hearing. Difficult to explain what the nuts and bolts of the improvement was it just 'was' better sounding. Of course when I got my 861v6 ...well that is another story!

Rod

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