@mtbiker29 possibly the best advise here. It took me a few years to appreciate how important room treatments are.
And you can apply that philosophy to many components of your system. Years ago Linn's message was "a cheap cartridge on a Linn sounds better than a expensive cartridge one on a lesser turntable"
In other words understand and learn about each component you are planning to add to your system and the role they play in the sound reproduction!
Best of luck in your journey!