High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?

There many ways to walk the road, related to tastes, gear design, budget constraint, trade-off choices related to the gear and trade-off choices related to the embeddings controls choices but there is only one road through acoustics concepts and experiments...

Acoustics define sounds experience parameters, nevermind the other factors and choices...

And acoustics here is not mere few panels on the walls, and it is not even mere physical complete acoustic room controls for a system , it is more , it includes psychoacoustics basic concepts too ...

We cannot experience something we do not even imagine, and we cannot experience something we then cannot understand at all ...

Buying any piece of gear does not give us experience ... Only by luck and money it may and only may in some cases give  a relatively good system at relatively high price...

Try to build one very good under 1000 bucks...Good luck! 😁 This is my bench test for knowledge ...

It is impossible without basic real knowledge in acoustics and in others aspects mechanical and electrical ....

And anyway some with very costlier one will say it is impossible period ! So much they vouch for gear design upgrades and price tag investment  and nothing much else...😊

I vouch for acoustics concepts and the way to experience them by experimenting ...

It could be the room speakers relation , but it could be also with it speakers design or headphones acoustic improvements and modifications , it could be on top of that acoustics modifications of stereo system basic flaws ( BACCH filters and crosstalk etc ) ...

Then compared to that, gear upgrade are most of the times MINOR improvement ... It is the opposite in audio threads where upgrades are presentend ALWAYS as MAJOR improvement at very high cost... It is NOT EVEN WRONG ... Thats my point ...

Well @mahgister I agree with many of your points, but I sense you take your perspective too far and diminish other experiences and audio realities to severely.

@mahgister building a very good system under $1000 is easier than ever these days...I’ve put together quite a few for myself, family and friends...and   +1 gr

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Well @mahgister I agree with many of your points, but I sense you take your perspective too far and diminish other experiences and audio realities to severely.

Perhaps few with coslier system will think so that my claims contradict their uopgrades history ...

Not the majority of people with low budget will all think so though for which i claim that acoustical, electrical and mechanical embeddings controls matter much than a costlier upgrade...

And most people unable to take the time and unable to have the luxury to own a dedicated room will think as you too that i exagerate completely ...

But acoustic truth dont care about democracy or price tags proud owners ...

You are completely right ...My two last purchase cost me peanuts and are not junk ...

But i spoke about a TOP low cost system under 1000 bucks which will not be a mere stop-gap here compared to 10,000 bucks one ... it is IMPOSSIBLE to experience audiophile sound with active cheap speakers WITHOUT modifying them for example then knowing basic acoustics... MIne have cost me 100 bucks 12 years ago ( i disliked them for all this time till i modify them because anyway i did not have any other choices ) and they will sell 150 bucks today ... Try that ...

@mahgister building a very good system under $1000 is easier than ever these days...I’ve put together quite a few for myself, family and friends..