Disagree? Only on a few details here and there.
1) Your ears. Don't matter. If you can hear, good for you. Listening is a mental activity, not mechanical.
2) Room acoustics. The best system will sound mediocre if the room dimensions and or acoustics are not addressed. Sort of. Kinda. To a certain extent. Maybe. For sure its in there somewhere. Prolly.
3) Speakers. Besides cost and aesthetics, speakers should be chosen that will work best for the type of music you intend to play and what the room dimensions will allow relative to your intended listening position. That's the colored good enough point of view all right. Never lasts. People always tire of it. Thus all the incessant trading. Sooner people give this one up and admit its all about compromise and doing as little harm as possible sooner more people will make better choices and be happier for longer. Like me.
4) Amplification. Once you have correctly chosen your speakers, and only after having selected your speakers, can you chose the amplification that will properly drive them. Yes and if you were smart and eliminated from contention everything under 92 dB sensitivity then amplifier selection becomes a breeze as just about anything will drive them.
5) Preamp. This is built into your integrated. See #4 above..
6) Source component. Turntable. CD is for background music and has little if any role to play in a high end system. Please.
7) Source material. No amount of money spent can improve a poorly recorded source. Shop carefully. Better-records.com White Hot Stampers make this easy. But seriously, this creates a false impression. Its not the system's job to make recordings sound good. That's your job, to feed it records that sound good. The systems job is to play them back, whatever they are, for good or otherwise.
8) Cables/racks/tweeks. These all may have an affect to a certain degree but if items 1-7 are chosen correctly, I wouldn't expect significant improvements. Ouch. Slight disagreement here. These are all equally as important as speakers, source material, amp, and room. As will become crystal clear within an hour of listening to mine. All this stuff you think can't make significant improvements, listen as I take them out one at a time and you hear the music go from better than you ever heard to just like everything else, only of course a little better- but only a little.
This is only my opinion of course and I realize some may take issue.
Not me. We are on the same page: Merry Christmas!
Chuck
1) Your ears. Don't matter. If you can hear, good for you. Listening is a mental activity, not mechanical.
2) Room acoustics. The best system will sound mediocre if the room dimensions and or acoustics are not addressed. Sort of. Kinda. To a certain extent. Maybe. For sure its in there somewhere. Prolly.
3) Speakers. Besides cost and aesthetics, speakers should be chosen that will work best for the type of music you intend to play and what the room dimensions will allow relative to your intended listening position. That's the colored good enough point of view all right. Never lasts. People always tire of it. Thus all the incessant trading. Sooner people give this one up and admit its all about compromise and doing as little harm as possible sooner more people will make better choices and be happier for longer. Like me.
4) Amplification. Once you have correctly chosen your speakers, and only after having selected your speakers, can you chose the amplification that will properly drive them. Yes and if you were smart and eliminated from contention everything under 92 dB sensitivity then amplifier selection becomes a breeze as just about anything will drive them.
5) Preamp. This is built into your integrated. See #4 above..
6) Source component. Turntable. CD is for background music and has little if any role to play in a high end system. Please.
7) Source material. No amount of money spent can improve a poorly recorded source. Shop carefully. Better-records.com White Hot Stampers make this easy. But seriously, this creates a false impression. Its not the system's job to make recordings sound good. That's your job, to feed it records that sound good. The systems job is to play them back, whatever they are, for good or otherwise.
8) Cables/racks/tweeks. These all may have an affect to a certain degree but if items 1-7 are chosen correctly, I wouldn't expect significant improvements. Ouch. Slight disagreement here. These are all equally as important as speakers, source material, amp, and room. As will become crystal clear within an hour of listening to mine. All this stuff you think can't make significant improvements, listen as I take them out one at a time and you hear the music go from better than you ever heard to just like everything else, only of course a little better- but only a little.
This is only my opinion of course and I realize some may take issue.
Not me. We are on the same page: Merry Christmas!
Chuck
