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


It is more complicated in reality of high end than either/or but still we have our preferences. This is a never ending debate, so let's never end it.

inna

After 50 years in this hobby I’ve settled on the following hierarchy:
Amplifier
Source
Speakers
Cables
Room acoustics...

Blasphemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The point is that with poor speakers your high end source may still sound poor and you won't hear the full benefit of your source. However with high end speakers which match your room you will hear the best your source can produce, good or not so good! 

Everything matters but speakers shouldn't be the weakest link in your system. 

Hence speakers first.

A great source OR speakers will STILL sound mediocre with a so so amplifier driving them!
I'll take a GREAT amp driving a decent source & speakers,allowing the FULL potential of those items to be realized!!!