Top two most important sound qualities

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@gladmo 

You mean, mine?  Thanks! 

Pardon my eschewing the “binary code” of the question, but my answer is:
A final product (overall sound quality) that makes me forget all the silly frettin’ and fussin’ and fightin’ that my fevered, obsessive, perfection-seeking mind engaged in.

Just kind of…you know, enjoying that, uh…music stuff.

In an earlier comment, I said "clarity and tonality". It just occurred to me that there’s an overlap of the two together which I could call harmonic completeness.

Subtle overtones can’t be heard without clarity, and these make music seem lively and realistic. An imbalanced tonality will also affect the ability to hear them. Without refined tonality, sound reproduction will be less full or pleasant to me. The way I am using tonality, I mean the totality of the degree of the presence of all potential tones across the audible range in relationship to each other.

@waytoomuchstuff ....scorching brows is easy (wayyy too highs of all sorts), cracking plaster is the subs laid on their sides 'gainst the walls...

Now, shattered sheetrock?

A 'renovation scheme' that underlies:

All you need

Is POWER.

Watts up?

Lots...and then some. :)

Anyway....Just carrying on whilst being carried away...*G*

Personally (Is there really an Other?  Doubt it...), like to play the genre and the cut the way I feel it's meant to be...got some flexibility to do so, so I do... *S*

Got to keep the radiators radiated and dusted in any case...

Anyway....back to the regularly scheduled program... J out