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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RRankin" data-source="post: 1188013" data-attributes="member: 23526">I agree with some that speakers are potentially the biggest differentiator here. Second to this is the room, as also said above. From this point on I do however depart, significantly, from the selected few's notion that source and amplification does not play a major role. They absolutely do, perhaps % wise a bit less than the speaker + room parameters, but there is a lot here at play as well.I am happy to admit that, especially on the digital source side, the gap between poor vs good has narrowed substantially the last decade or so. This is great for us consumers. The gap is however not nullified, nope..On the amplification side, wow, there are some substantial differences between the sound of amplifiers. No other way to describe it. Saying that all amps sound the same......it does not calculate.To the OP, I would actually spread my funds sort of evenly across the components, speakers, amplification, room treatment, source for a start, and start a rotating upgrade process from there on. Please consider the room treatment one with care, knowing what I know now, I wish I started this earlier in my journey, it may have saved me lots of cash on other fruitless upgrades to achieve or eliminate certain aspects of the reproduction process that may have been down to a poor room rather than other components of the system.</blockquote>