Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ?

I don’t mean to be the poor old sod but what comes first brain or hands?

@kingsleuy , I bought my very first system at the SAFB BX in ’79 and it was also a Magnavox! I did it on lay-away. (It would not have strapped onto the back of a mc though, I picked the rack system that had the biggest speakers of all of the rack systems they had. It must have been multiple boxes. I am not sure how I got it back to the barracks in my Mustang, but I did.)

Source always first because if you got great speakers and your source is not that great it's going to sound like crap.

Chicken or Egg?

If I will have to start speaker first, so you know your room will be able to accommodate it. Once you have the speakers I will choose the right amp tubes or ss. Preamp , then source. Assuming cables are in the house.