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

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.

fuses first, then cables...eventually the rest of the system will fall into place. room last.

Spend full budget on Shun mook discs and Shakti stones....no speakers and sources are needed. Just start singing, dancing and tossing shakti stones around   --> quickest path to audio nirvana.

Spend full budget on Shun mook discs and Shakti stones....no speakers and sources are needed. Just start singing, dancing and tossing shakti stones around   --> quickest path to audio nirvana.

That will only work if you cover all your walls with funny looking panels.  

Garbage in is Garbage out 

We are not interested in garbage, we are talking about excellent or better source and similar level speakers.