What makes the biggest difference in sound quality?

@steakster Agree with  that everything matters, and speakers are the majority.

+1 @celestialsound 

1. Room

2. Speaker Position

3. Speakers

4. Source/Pre Amp/Power amp

5. Cables

Everything.

tsushima1603 posts 12-26-2021 3:31am Your thread isn’t working out quite as hoped aye Ted 😉

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No it certainly is NOT

Look we’ve already had this discussion a million x’s.

Its already been established Speakers are EVERYTHING in a system. Not sure where all these dis/mis info posts are comming from,, I guess the old seasoned audiophiles have left this site and now we have a bunch of greenies who have no clue what makes/breaks a sound system.

#1 speakers.

#2 tube type/design pure SET vs SET/PP vs KT/PP ...KT88 vs KT90

#3 DAC quality(My Shanling 3000 sounds a tiny bit better vs the cayin 17, but the jadis DAC JS2 blows both away) vs lower end DAC/solid state DACs(cheap lil DACs that sell for $$$$), Sony cd players. .

#4 output trans quality. Coblat vs Z6 vs Z11

#5 pre tube types(AX/AU vs 6NS7 and brand (Teles vs RCA’s)

Room acoustics last and maybe least.

Wires/cabels, nuance, miniscule.

The question was framed in such a manner so as to specifically not ask about hearing, auditory perceptions or any possible psycho-acoustic effects.

This was possibly accidental, of course.
 

I also didn’t ask what people had for Christmas dinner.