Speakers are most important. Without good speakers you cannot hear any difference
What is the most important component to consider while building a new system?
I recently viewed a You Tube video featuring Paul McGowan from PS Audio discussing the most important component when building a new system. I love Paul's video's and feel they bring a personalized touch to the discussions of all things audio. In the video mentioned Paul took a generalized approach in stating the speakers were the most important component to consider and that the relevant importance of each successive component rested in the chain down stream of the speakers. I am writing this to humbly disagree. I am in the mist of building a new system from scratch over the past 9 months. It has been my experience that if proper care is taken to the quality of the amp. pre-amp. and cables (with an emphasis on cables) you can get away with relatively inexpensive speakers that sound better than they have a right to. This is my own opinion based on recent experiences.
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@david_ten OP asked: "What is the most important component to consider while building a new system?" Component. Singular. He did not ask "What ARE the most important COMPONENTS to consider while building a new system?" Hmmm? Hmmm indeed. I’m outta here. Even a little "chicken or the egg" is much more than I care to ponder. :) |
ps566 posts07-16-2021 8:46pmI reiterate- no speakers, no music. Seems obvious but hey this is an "audiophile" forum, hence "common sense" is often not all that common. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And 50 yrs later we are still asking this Q.. Let this thread be the final word on this matter. Yet for some reason, amplifiers continue to facinate audiophiles interests.. Why??? Discussions on amplifiers bore me to death. I like EL34/KT88/KT120's about equal, any PP amp under 50 watts is all thats needed. Pick your lab, they are all ~~~about~~~ equal in terms of sound. The only thing important when choosinga amp is build quality/reputation. Thats it, and of course price. A $7k intergrated is not any much superior to a $1500 intergrated in terms of sound. Its what you can afford. Speakers, here is the problem. You can throw tons of money intoa speaker, and still get less than a much lower price speaker that does not have the distortion issues a speaker 10X's its price. IOW a $3k speaker can out shoot a $30k speaker, only due to The Distortion factor. My speaker of choice is magnesium cone midwoofers, due to its extremely low coloration/dampening character. Any paper material I will not like as it sounds like speakers from the 1970's and all the issues of those early cone materials. |
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