Top two most important sound qualities

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

I just think you need to like it.   There's so much confirmation bias, escalation of commitment, and subjectivity that it's scarcely possible to say what's really going on here. The continual upgrading turned me off eventually. 

The system should be suited to the space, it should be something I can live with.  It should play the kind of music I listen to most well. I don't want a system that dominates the room from an interior design perspective. 

Ultimately, I feel that the key component is to acknowledge the diminishing rate of return and to isolate oneself from the ongoing dissatisfaction that reading web forums brings.  I glance at the digest for this one and comment once a month at most. 

We've got a couple of Omega systems running off small tube amps with discreet subs and I think I am done with audio purchases forever. They sound great with the kind of indy folk stuff we listen to.  Mids matter most because that's where most of the information is anyways. 

Fright and goosebumps 

1. Extremely low noise

2. Accurate tonal balance