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Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life!
At the end, it always comes down to whatever ever sounds good to the listener.To use an orchestral recording as an example, have you ever really thought about how much "interference" there actually is between the original sound of the orchestra an... 
For those of us over 60..
'50s: Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Lloyd Price'60s: Ray Charles, Janis, Santana'70s: The Band, John Fogerty'80s - present: Americana in general with a tip of my hat to John FaheyClassical is another topic for conversation... 
Oppo Ceasing production
Not at all about resources but direction.OPPO makes one of the top 5 selling smartphones in the world and are especially big in the Eastern (China, India, et al.) market... 
I used to think passive preamps were superior to active preamps given right the setup, but
With regard to Nelson Pass' commensI have a 1996 version of his Pass Labs Aleph P preamp that has separate controls for gain and volume. His advice was to set the gain as low as you can and the volume as high as you can for your basic listening an...