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

To me it’s speakers ( EPIC CF4 VI) way better than any speakers ever in my room it’s not about the price but the dynamics clarity and bass response room will be second and Preamp Third 

@lordrootman 

I'm with you on the speakers. There's a current thread asking if there are any really good speakers for $10k. I read that and felt like I was in another world, because after I spent a fortune on a 19 other speakers, I discovered the Epic CF4 version 1, and they were the best I have ever owned.

@roxy54 

Im glad few people know how good they are if not we can’t afford them lol 😂 

True. It's funny, after all of the thought and research that I did for other speakers that I bought, I bought these on a lark because I read a single customer review, and a short time later I found a pair of Version 1's for sale and bought them on a lark because I had 1k sitting around that wasn't spoken for. It is truly the best money I ever spent on audio.