We can, given a great room and a good signal chain, get excellent performance out of a particular speaker not costing an arm and a leg. The speakers need to be good though, but a great chain can make some not so pricey speakers perform well. To few music lovers fail to optimize the room.
There is really no right balance per se. I'm at 120 %, Trans Fi Linear arm, Salvation TT, vintage Fidelity Research Cart and BAT VK P10SE running Zu Def 4's. All tube, dynamics, bass, warmth, tone-did I say dynamics? The reason there is no right answer is that synergy can be found for each of us at different price points for components.
Whats really enjoyable about this thread is seeing how so many music lovers go about their process and how important it is. Wouldn't most on here like to sample most of the systems mentioned here. We could all learn quite a bit.
There is really no right balance per se. I'm at 120 %, Trans Fi Linear arm, Salvation TT, vintage Fidelity Research Cart and BAT VK P10SE running Zu Def 4's. All tube, dynamics, bass, warmth, tone-did I say dynamics? The reason there is no right answer is that synergy can be found for each of us at different price points for components.
Whats really enjoyable about this thread is seeing how so many music lovers go about their process and how important it is. Wouldn't most on here like to sample most of the systems mentioned here. We could all learn quite a bit.