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Best Of Breed or Matching Components?

I see a lot of questions regarding best matches to components, particularly with amps and preamps.  It got me thinking about the different ways to go about building a system.  From an electronics perspective, do you feel that combining components from various manufacturers provides the best sound?  Or do you think that matching components from the same manufacturer provides more synergies? 




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theothergreg OP
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Interesting responses, thanks!  I know that "best sound" is very subjective, but so is the selection of components.

I just went from an older best-of-breed system which was great, to a single vendor stack with an integrated and am very happy so far.  The synergies were very evident from the start and have gotten better as I go through the break-in period.  That's really what prompted the question.

That doesn't mean I'd never go back to the best-of-breed route in the future though.... :)
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