I still don't get it that what makes system capable of playing hi-res music and what kind of things will ruin that capability.
Few examples:
You have portable hifi player and high end headphones (total cost >2000) but the headphones aren't "hi-res" VS cheap player with hi-res capable dac and cheap hi-res in-ear headphones (total cost <500).. Only the second one is hi-res capable even if saving more than 1,5k?
Me myself have ruark mr1 active speakers and I asked Ruark if those speakers have hi-res capability when I use them with tablet and external dac. They answered that they are hi-res capable but I'm still little bit suspecting... I think I can hear difference but have no idea why Ruark mr1 would be hi-res capable and some rivals wouldn't be.
Hi-res logo seems to be also marketing trick as all hi-res capable products don't have that logo. Most new sony products have hi-res logo on them. Example Sony SRS-X99 speaker is said to be hi-res even if it only can produce 45khz minimum and I thought that hi-res can produce lot lower than that. If hi-res capability isn't all about frequency response, what then? Bigger price and having that damn logo on product?
That all is confusing me. What are the parts that make speakers/system "not hi-res"? -Bad quality amp? -bad quality cables? -Frequency response not enough wide? -Something else?