About the importance of the room vs the electronics

You don’t say?  Who’d a thunk it!

@mapman 
That is what ,your wife said ,on your wedding night.
And you have never got over it .

I don't know if saying which is more important, room vs. gear is the right way to go about this.

I think that if you are assembling a good system, you owe it to yourself to deal with the room early as best you can. 

Based on a lot of listening, both to audiophiles AND to systems I do believe that different consumers are more or less sensitive to the room.  That they can in fact hear fine differences in an acoustically messy environment.  Me, I absolutely cannot.  I need at least some room treatment before I can listen critically.

There's also the absolute truth that getting a good room often ends a lot of gear swapping and that you may end up with smaller, less expensive, but not less performing, gear as your room now behaves very well with a wide variety of gear.

setting up the system in the room and making sure it meshes with your room is as important as the electronics in the system. A lot of people waste much time and money chasing sound that setup and critical evaluation can fix instead of spending thousands on electronics.

There's also the absolute truth that getting a good room often ends a lot of gear swapping and that you may end up with smaller, less expensive, but not less performing, gear as your room now behaves very well with a wide variety of gear.

You said it more wisely than me....

You are probably wiser than me.... But anyway we think the same....

My best to you...