Five "Golden Rules" of HiFi?


Tough question, but if you had to list your 5 most important "Golden Rules" of hifi, from your own experiences, what would they be?
To start things off, mine would be:

1. Protect your hearing; without it, the rest is pointless.
2. Use a surge/overvoltage protection power board
3. Read lots of reviews and forums like this one
4. Don't buy secondhand speakers (bad experience!)
5. Never buy gear without listening to your own music through it.
carl109

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1. Don't overspend. You can combine correct componants,appropriate for a particular room, and do well for a reasonable amount of money. You can spend spend an unreasonable amount of money,put together the wrong combination,and have something that sounds bad.

2.Make sure the equipment is appropriate to the room,and deaden the room enough that a hand clap does not echo.

3.(I'm a panel nut.) If you like box speakers,you can buy speakers for fifty cents on a dollar from Madisound.

4. Electonics are so good now that if you choose to buy new,you can safely buy from AVA or Odyssey,based upon specifications,knowing the pieces will meet or exceed the specs,saving what you would have to pay for the retail step-including sales commissions.

5. Remember that listening is passive,that playing is active. Learn to play,or get better at playing an instrument. Play activly at least as much as you listen passively.