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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seanjammy" data-source="post: 1188308" data-attributes="member: 17457">As with so many other things, I think the answer is that it depends. The main factor is whether you prize form over substance. A brilliant pair of speakers, in a great room, can easily sound impressive. However a smaller pair of good bookshelves, driven by brilliant electronics (in my view, controversially, the preamp is pretty much the most influential part of the chain), will always have more magic, detail, space, feel, all of those intangibles that infuriate the stone-ear more is more crowd. Your budget, of course, would determine the base level for each set of components. Starting with a 200k set of speakers and spending 800k on electronics is very different to 2k/8k. Ultimately, no matter the starting point, the pseudo cognoscenti like me and the rest of the muppets here will not short circuit one truism: a well setup, tweaked system, engineered over time, will always trump one designed by a forum (or any other committee or expert group).</blockquote>