Ok this will be a good thread.


What in your opinion is the most important part of a good 2 channel system. Or what has the biggest impact on overall sound. For example if you feel Speakers are most important, or Preamp, Amp, Source. I am not looking for a ss vs. tube debate, just what do you feel is most important.

I will start:
I feel speakers are the most important part. I know lots of you are going to say electronics, but keep it to one part, like Preamp, Amp, etc.
Steve
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Damn, pbb, you've become a dry hole...and, thereby, have made me one (!) (fade in: rousing shouts from the gallery!!).

So, if you are not a Tarpon, and dogs have souls, and the orientation of the mind creates the mind that then listens to the next note, hearing the Silence a bit more between the notes, then what "are" you then?

Hmmm.

Hello Muralman! Goodbye 6ch and twl, til meet you fishing next time!

BTW, we have notes and what's between notes, or sound and silence. But, what comes first? Is it an irrelvant question in the context of how we build our stereos, and to what is the most "important" component?

I don't think so, and here is why in the context of what component is most "important" at any given point on the curve of learning to listen better. It isn't sound-then-silence, like flipping from one to the next, because, even using the causality laws of physics, one must precede the other; and, thereby, be the causal ground of the other. It is: notes ARISE out of silence.

So, if silence is prior to sound, don't you think its "important" - as in, determitively important in the first instance, the first causal instance - that silence, or dimension, be a priority of a component?

And, lo and behold, isn't it the feeling of dimension/space/continuity that is the Grail of the best stereos? Maybe one could then counter by saying that the sound is equally important as silence, and that's true, but in the best systems, isn't it the act of INFUSING the harmonic, as its ground, deeper and deeper, which makes it "better"?

twl, when you get a "better" TT and harmonics become "better" within the core projection of voice, isn't it 1) the continuity of the projection through space getting better, and 2) the harmonic progressively infused with a ground of air/space/dimension that has improved to the most appreciable degree, even within the projection itself, and therefore, becomes most "important"?

Just some ideas thrown out. :0)
My version about the dog is different, though.

- The dog (being) has soul (no mind); therefore, it dares (desire without desire) to jump into the water, run through the fire, to save it friend (owner).

- The dog (being) has soul and mind (thinks that the mind is the soul => consfused) that's why it hates the postman. :-)
6ch: in mine here, being = soul and mind = think. I like the action stuff, though.

Dog's mind is even more thing orientated than we are; it doesn't "like" the postman-thing in its place-thing (territory). It is a child...

Who here hates the postman (message delivery man)?

Twitch, twitch goes the popper.