Acoustics is the key to audio satisfaction...
Imagine now a dedicated acoustic controlled room ...Not only few panels...
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Studying basic acoustics for fun experiments save a lot of money...
For most the music is IN the cables or IN the dac, not so much in the room...
For me it is the reverse, the components are only conveyor of the trade-off acoustic choices used by the recording engineers , which are acoustically translated by your speakers/ears/room under control or not...
Dac and amplification convey acoustic information in an analog/digital way but cannot translate this information by themselves, the speakers/ears/room relation is the experience true location... Not the amp or dac so important they must be...
Because people had no idea about acoustics they think music come from the dac/amp not from acoustics and psycho-acoustic controls...