WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON CABLES AND EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD?

@everyone I’m not negating the room plays a huge part in sound but I do believe in the high end gear if it’s really good. If you place high end well built and designed gear in a really great room and acoustic environment it sounds like heaven. I’m not going to negate the room especially the treated rooms at all but at the same time place high end gear in a really great environment if you have matched it properly and it is designed well you truly can hit it out the park. However all of us don’t have the perfect listening environments but a lot of us can still get great sound. 

@everyone I do get what you are saying about people not talking about how much the room plays a part. Just cause you spend a lot of money doesn’t mean you have a great system either. It is a lot of things. EQUIPMENT, ROOM, MATCHING, CABLING ETC. All of these things can play a part. Now I will say a better matched mid fi system can beat a hi end system if it’s matched properly and placed in the right environment. Some folks sell you stuff that doesn’t work well together just because that’s the brands they sell. I get that part too. 

Possibly, for the same reasons you knowingly and willingly chose to type your question in all upper case letters. Makes you wonder why…

@calvinj

If you place high end well built and designed gear in a really great room and acoustic environment it sounds like heaven.

+1

However all of us don’t have the perfect listening environments but a lot of us can still get great sound.

If you want easy peasy a room kit from Sonitus is the way to go.

high end gear in a really great environment if you have matched it properly and it is designed well you truly can hit it out the park.

I chose to go mostly with active speakers where the designer matches each driver with a monoblok amp and an active crossover. Yes, there are many paths but that is a quick one. It also saved me budget from buying external amps and speaker cables on a LOT of speakers.

Now I will say a better matched mid fi system can beat a hi end system if it’s matched properly and placed in the right environment.

This is the nice thing about this hobby, as the OP said earlier, there are a lot of paths to get good results.

My room is crazy. It’s not the best room. It has high ceilings. Wood floors and  I can only place my speakers so far apart and can only place them 2-3 feet from wall. I’m going to be honest. When I take my system to a local show like I did when I had my last amp in dac I got amazing sound in that carpeted room when I had someone come set it up properly. I even had my sub guy come in and do placement because he does that as a regular job as well as he has become really good at placement angles etc. But I have gotten really great sound in my room.  I’m extremely happy with my system. I’m not gonna lie it’s the best I ever had. But one thing that I could do that most couldn’t is that I had a 2 month demo of the amp and dac in my room before I purchased because of my relationship with the company.  The whole reason we lend out cabling at infigo audio is to let buyers try before you buy in your i environment. That’s important but mist in the end can’t allow it in their business model and logistics.