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What is your audio axiom?

So we all have been given audio advice and also shared with others our tips and advice. I ask you to share your #1 audio axiom. If you were giving advice or sharing experience (say to a young person starting in this hobby) what would it be? 
 

Here is mine (to start). “No matter how good your audio equipment or system, the quality of any given recording will make or break the listening experience”

Now the ball is handed to you guys…

2psyop
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dweller
3,853 posts
 

"Have your priorities straight. Purchase a house before building your dream system."

lanx0003
1,091 posts
 

If it sounds good, it’s good music. ~ Duke Ellington

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hilde45
5,391 posts
 

What I say to myself: "50% is the room, stupid."

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larsman
2,301 posts
 

I'd tell them that the most important thing is the music; I didn't enjoy songs any less as a teenager listening on a cheap clock-radio than I do now hearing them on a true audiophile system and a room with wall-to-wall carpet and no side-walls. But I'd also suggest to give a listen if they can to a good sound system; they might find a new pleasure.... 

jji666
586 posts
 

Music first. And there is no absolute sound, only the sound you prefer. 

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