Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ?

@kingsleuy , I bought my very first system at the SAFB BX in ’79 and it was also a Magnavox! I did it on lay-away. (It would not have strapped onto the back of a mc though, I picked the rack system that had the biggest speakers of all of the rack systems they had. It must have been multiple boxes. I am not sure how I got it back to the barracks in my Mustang, but I did.)

Source always first because if you got great speakers and your source is not that great it's going to sound like crap.

Chicken or Egg?

If I will have to start speaker first, so you know your room will be able to accommodate it. Once you have the speakers I will choose the right amp tubes or ss. Preamp , then source. Assuming cables are in the house.

fuses first, then cables...eventually the rest of the system will fall into place. room last.

Spend full budget on Shun mook discs and Shakti stones....no speakers and sources are needed. Just start singing, dancing and tossing shakti stones around   --> quickest path to audio nirvana.