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So you want to build a good sounding audio system hu?

After a rather interesting thread about cable burn in I started thinking. If I had to start all over again building my home audio system what are the most important things I would consider knowing what I know now. So Im curious. What is your order of importance in regards to successfully building a good sounding audio system. Here is mine:

1. Power. In regards to this I know often times we can do much about the power coming into the home. However in a
perfect world this would be my number 1.
2. Room (acoustics)
3. knowledge (needed in order to obtain the remaining items)
4. Spakers
5. Electronics
6. power cables
7. Quality of source media (record, CD, etc)
8. ICs
9. Patience
10. A reliable source of reference/information (forums such as Audiogon) (I guess this could also be under the knowledge category but I needed a number 10 LOL). Actually this one could also be in the number 1 spot if I were just starting, but since I said "knowing what I know now" I will leave it in this position.
barnettk
gdnrbob
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@elizabeth ,
If you bought a stereo in 1965, you’d have been a wee child...
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geoffkait
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How can you buy a stereo before you were born? 
barnettk OP
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I got my first system in 1975. My brother returned home from Vietnam with a Pioneer receiver and a Gerard turntable he gave me. Later my parents allowed me to get a pair of speakers. I ended up adding some Radio Shack super tweeters to them lol. Been hooked every since. I moved on from that receiver to A Sansui integrated amp, then to a Nikko Alpha 440 power amp and SAE pre amp. Man that was a sweet system for a young man. Don’t remember the speakers tho. Wow. Have not thought about that in a long time. After high school got my first reel to reel when I was in the Air Force and picked up some Bose 501s in the early 80s. Man those systems sounded soooo good to me.
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