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A principle guiding the wise audiophile life

There is one law, or best said a principle, guiding the wise audiophile life :
 
What matter is not the gear pieces price or his design, it is up to our budget limit to pick the right stuff for ourselves and our needs.
 
What matter is the way we installed together the mechanical,electrical and acoustical working dimensions of any chosen system/room...
 
As a consequence of this principle this is his corollary:
 
The mechanical electrical and acoustical controls,devices,tweaks, parameters, cannot be replaced by one another  if we want to reach an optimal result in sound quality.
 
Vibrations/resonance controls cannot replace or be replaced by acoustics parameters controls or EMI shielding and grounding for example.
 
The greatest error we can do is buying and  just "plug and play". Then upgrading a piece part by frustration or dissatisfaction, without learning how the whole system may,must,can behave in a  specific room for our specific ears (psycho-acoustics).
 
The other error will be to cure one problem with a gear upgrade before trying to understand what is the problem. 
 
 
This must be meditated by  any beginners before "upgrading" and after "upgrading"...
 
 There is no relation between a piece of gear or a system/room before and after his optimal mechanical,electrical and acoustical installation. None.
 
It is the reason why reviews do not tell all the truth there is to be tell ...
 
This resume what i have learned. 
 
What have you learned yourself ?
mahgister

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It takes about 6 months for speakers to get broken in to sound their best. The room you place your system in is as important as the components you have picked for your system. 

What matters most, is you like the sound of your system.

5 years  ago I purchased an integrated Primaluna, built my own speakers and love the sound of my system. Could it be better? Of course, if I want to nit pick. Perfection is an opinion, not a reality in Audio reproduction. There is a fine line between, "how much better per $1000 will be worth the cost."  For those with deep pockets, well go for it. For me, listening before I purchased maximized the dollars I spent. I had about 100hrs in my speakers before I said, this is what I want. Perfect? For my dollars spent, for me it's darn close. 

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