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

My system is average ... THe tweaking is not ...

 i was frustrated and with no money ... I am no more frustrated ...

You are very kind and patient with me ... Thanks ...

Happy near year ...

@mahgister I have looked at your virtual system many, many times and what you have done is so remarkable and interesting.  Your perspective is valuable and yet another important piece of the puzzle. 

@grannyring the story of how Hans Looman the owner of our company he and I met before at a show and the system he brought before he started his company was from manufacturers I knew that had worked together before. So when it didn’t sound right I was like I heard that system before. I knew it had synergy. I had a bag of cables I traveled with. THE CABLES WENT IN AND POW! The whole system changed! It opened up. The music. The air. The decay. Immaculate.  That’s how we started on this journey 6 years ago! He took it upon himself to build equipment and cables so that the cables would never be a bottleneck again!

@grannyring @mahgister i don’t minimize what @mahgister has said or done. You can get the most out of what you have that way. But the build quality and technology in the right higher end equipment is just on another level. All things being equal. Synergy wise. I had some pretty good classe stuff early on 15 years ago but I hear the veloce Ls1 which was a battery powered expensive tube pre amp. At that moment I realized there are levels in this audio game. The difference was jaw dropping. The equipment was just next level. Soundstage transparency and detail. 0 noise floor. Wowwww!

OP,

I completely agree with your opening statement.

I fortunately accidentally bought a house with an exceptionally great audio space. I carefully populated it with the highest quality synergistic components with transparent (Transparent) wires that I could afford, and spent as much time as I could afford tweaking the system and the venue and have a great sounding system.

You work within the constraints. I have heard fantastic systems in rooms the size of walk in closets where careful choice of components and treatments produced incredible sound, ridiculously expensive systems carefully set up and less expensive, meticulously assembled systems.

You use what you have in the way you said.

Nobody nevermind any embeddings controls will transform a low cost design to a higher end design ...Period... 😁

But nobody can hope to create an optimally working system with no embeddings electrical mechanical and acoustical controls, paying high cost price without learning nor acoustics nor anything else, this is hopeless ...

This is what i learned...

And everybody can live with a MINIMAL acoustic satisfaction threshold once reached  by good working embeddings and some modification with low cost gear ...

 But if a minimal acoustic satisfaction threshold is not a stop-gap at all , it is a minimal threshold not a maximal one 😊... My peanuts cost system is more than good but it will be ridiculous and laughing stock indeed to compare it to any high end superior design ...

But superior design dont do miracles EITHER ( EVEN  with the BACCH system 😊 because it gives immediately something that do not exist in stereo system but anyway the room acoustic must be well done  )

Acoustic and electrical and mechanical embeddings controls do big improvement toward the true working potential qualities for any system at any price ....