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Question: What are some of your best pieces of advise to someone new to the hobby?

I have a friend who is interested in putting together a system and am putting together a little guide for him, compiling information I’ve found over the years, plus some of my own personal tips and tricks. However, I am by no means the end-all-be-all of knowledge and want to incorporate information, tips, and tricks from the community - however basic they may seem - into a nice reference resource.

Without specifically naming any pieces of gear or brands (this isn’t a product recommendation question), what are some of the biggest tips, tricks, important pieces of info to keep in mind, caveats, etc. that you would have for someone new?

*side note - hopefully this post can also serve as a nice reference point for people in the future, as well!

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newbee
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Buy and read (!) a good book on audio systems and set up of your room. Set up is paramount as is selection of components, based on synergy, not cost, flash, or brand name. Due diligence before acting and some old fashioned critical analysis will save a lot of downstream grief. What works for all of your advisors, for a lot of reasons, may not work your for you at all.

Sounds like Polonius (pompously) giving advice to his son, Laertes, i.e. ’neither a borrower nor lender be.....". :-)

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