What makes you build a system around an amplifier?

If you want it all, air, dynamics, tinkling of glasses in a small club look no further than Nina Simone’s first album, Little Girl Blue. Don’t Smoke in Bed, Mood Indigo, etc. That's what I'm talking about!

willemj wrote,

"Moreover, image and ’air’ can be quite delusional/artificial properties. Just go to a good concert hall and listen to a symphonic concert. Imaging there is usually far less precise than what you hear at home from your audio gear."

>>>>>This is easy. Just disregard the illusional, delusional, artificial image and air. Only worry about the actual image and air in the room at that time. See, that's not so hard, is it? Put another way, it is what it is.

No matter how much you have in the end you would have had even more if you had started off with more. - Old audiophile axiom

Building a system around an amplifier or around speakers is so old school. The trend these days, and I'm just going by what I read here, is to build a system around fuses.