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Poll: Most impactful component

Given all the technological advances over the years, audiophiles have very different perspectives on equipment.

This likely reopens an age old debate, but which component has the most potential to improve a stereo system? Or can it?

If you could upgrade one component to take your system to the next level which one would get the investment? Speakers? DAC? Pre? Source?

Or is this the holy grail that no one can achieve?

 

 

tee_dee
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painter24
283 posts
 

My room. Whilst I'm grateful ful I have a dedicated room, I know it is too small for what I want to achieve, so I have to live with compromise despite room treatments

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jtcf
1,617 posts
 

Right now my source is the weakest component. But my room is not great either.

dynamiclinearity
258 posts
 

Duh, speaker, of course. Everything in the chain matters. But speakers vary significantly more than any other link in the chain(the cartridge is second in an analog system) so their choice gives many more variations to find sound you like and conversely it is by far the link in the chain that can produce sound you don't like and there are probably many more speakers whose voice you don't like than you do like.

knotscott
920 posts
 

Right now my source is the weakest component. But my room is not great either.

Source is usually easier to fix, so work on both... 😎

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1971gto455ho
478 posts
 

Cables and risers….. 😂Friday night laugh 

Cheers

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