What makes you build a system around an amplifier?


Serious question. I almost always care about the room and speakers first, then build around that. However, this is not the only way to do things.

If you have ever insisted on keeping your amplifier, but were willing to change everything else around it, please let us know why. What made an amp so outstanding in your mind that it was worth making it your center piece. Imaging? slam?

Be specific about the amp and speakers or other gear that you shuffled through.

Thanks!

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erik_squires
With few exceptions, acoustics are typically terrible at live events. Concert halls are typically poor acoustically, especially if they have been built in the last 100 years. 
willemj wrote,

"Moreover, image and ’air’ can be quite delusional/artificial properties. Just go to a good concert hall and listen to a symphonic concert. Imaging there is usually far less precise than what you hear at home from your audio gear."

>>>>>This is easy. Just disregard the illusional, delusional, artificial image and air. Only worry about the actual image and air in the room at that time. See, that's not so hard, is it? Put another way, it is what it is.

No matter how much you have in the end you would have had even more if you had started off with more. - Old audiophile axiom

If you want it all, air, dynamics, tinkling of glasses in a small club look no further than Nina Simone’s first album, Little Girl Blue. Don’t Smoke in Bed, Mood Indigo, etc. That's what I'm talking about!

I want to make it clear, this thread is definitely not about perfect amplifiers. :)

It is about amplifiers you fall in love with.

Best,

E