High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?

You are completely right ...My two last purchase cost me peanuts and are not junk ...

But i spoke about a TOP low cost system under 1000 bucks which will not be a mere stop-gap here compared to 10,000 bucks one ... it is IMPOSSIBLE to experience audiophile sound with active cheap speakers WITHOUT modifying them for example then knowing basic acoustics... MIne have cost me 100 bucks 12 years ago ( i disliked them for all this time till i modify them because anyway i did not have any other choices ) and they will sell 150 bucks today ... Try that ...

@mahgister building a very good system under $1000 is easier than ever these days...I’ve put together quite a few for myself, family and friends..

you make lots of good points, and I'm sure you have done a remarkable job with your components and room...

Acoustic truth does care about not introducing noise into the environment you wish to place treatments and embeddings. I am referring to signal noise that smears, perverts, and masks the audio signal. So the gear and tweaks audiophiles buy certainly play a role at reducing signal noise. Gear, modifications, tweaks, room treatments, vibration control, component matching, speaker placement, room construction, listening skills, subjective preferences and so much more all play a role in this passion. They all matter. How one comes to realize sonic contentment is a complex meshing of all of this. No one road is the universal way.

@mahgister I have looked at your virtual system many, many times and what you have done is so remarkable and interesting.  Your perspective is valuable and yet another important piece of the puzzle. 

My system is average ... THe tweaking is not ...

 i was frustrated and with no money ... I am no more frustrated ...

You are very kind and patient with me ... Thanks ...

Happy near year ...

@mahgister I have looked at your virtual system many, many times and what you have done is so remarkable and interesting.  Your perspective is valuable and yet another important piece of the puzzle. 

@grannyring the story of how Hans Looman the owner of our company he and I met before at a show and the system he brought before he started his company was from manufacturers I knew that had worked together before. So when it didn’t sound right I was like I heard that system before. I knew it had synergy. I had a bag of cables I traveled with. THE CABLES WENT IN AND POW! The whole system changed! It opened up. The music. The air. The decay. Immaculate.  That’s how we started on this journey 6 years ago! He took it upon himself to build equipment and cables so that the cables would never be a bottleneck again!