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Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong.

Gear chasing and swapping can be a real joy or a real pain. 
The search for "better" or just the search for the "right fit" or sound.
One thing I've learned (with some difficulty) is that there are some fundamentals which have to be in place if anything else is going to be accurately assessed.

Of these, amp-speaker synergy and room acoustics were the most obvious factors I neglected. Noise and isolation were also missed as critical, early on. I blamed components which really were not the cause or the solution to the situation because I was missing the fundamentals.

I'm curious to hear anecdotes of your discovery.

What fundamental did you fail to pay attention to which caused you to chase gear unnecessarily?

Hopefully, these stories will be instructive, especially for newer audiophiles.

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othercrazycanuck
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What fundamentals? Far too many and I should know better!

- Buying high end speakers with low end design

- Believing speakers needed to be big

- Believing subs are mainly for movies

- Thinking that my electronics, but mainly my amps were either the problem or the solution

- Accepting at some point that I fundamentally did not understand how what came out of my speakers eventually got to my ears, and what it did when it got there

- Realizing that audio dealers, at least the ones in my area of which there are many, don't know what they are talking about 95% of the time.

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