What is most important part of a system?

gsm18439, your post intrigued me.  I'm not as experienced as many here, but I'm not inexperienced.  However, while the information you provide makes sense, I don't come to the same conclusion.  I would conclude from your experience that the change of speakers resulted in a change in the significance of the amp with which they are paired.  By the way, my most recent change was from SS to OTL tube amps and the quality/liveliness of the reproduction of the music has taken a very noticeable jump, given it's a good recording that I'm listening to.  My next major upgrade is to hopefully to change to more efficient speakers, specifically the Zu Druids, to further advance this development.  In other words, without your Zu speakers, you would not have fully appreciated the quality of your SET amp.  I not sure  which is the more important component, but I would say that both the amp and the speakers are important.

Does that make sense?
Mark

geoffkait,

English is not my first language, so I can`t express myself very skillfully.
I see your wonderful writing and I think What a U doing here?
.... Please let us know when your book comes to sale?

I am not confused about dynamic range and headroom. Gee no kidding.

Pluto
geoffkait,
English is not my first language, so I can`t express myself very skillfully.
I see your wonderful writing and I think What a U doing here?
.... Please let us know when your book comes to sale?

That's very nice of you to say, Pluto. A lot of people say it looks like Greek to them.

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