Is there a magic formula for spending on components in a system

My journey cost me peanuts....

Simple listening experiments+homemade materials or low cost electronic one.....

Read my thread for shorcuts .... :)

Your experience is not mine 50% comes from the embeddings (mechanical,electrical,acoustical) only 50 % comes from the speakers, amplification and sources....

I am not surprized by your conclusion at all....Ignorance is bliss....

If you want to verify my saying takes any audio system, put it in a bad acoustical room, in a noisy electrical grid, with no controls of vibrations and resonance.... Good luck with the lamp cord....

Audio system at any price NEED TO BE EMBEDDED in these 3 environment.....

The speakers and room provide the vast majority of your impression of your system assuming competent amplification and source.

This is right on and my experience...

But controls of the acoustic of a room has 2 part: a passive well known one, easy to read about ; amd an active one very important and no so easy to read about and figure out...

But all that can cost peanuts with your ears and listening experiments...I transform mine without any measure, and the result is amazing on all count at nearfield or regular listening...


But decreasing the electrical noise floor of the house is very important on all aspect of S.Q. just below the acoustic controls....

I buy low cost vintage very good elements for the system.....

The more money i invest were in my homemade controls of the mechanical, electrical, and acoustical embeddings.... This is the KEY....

When you forget upgrades and listen music like never before you know you are there.....

I am with you on that..... My best....

I prefer magic stuff to idiotic ramblings tough....Especially when it is against others and in their back.....

50% at most must be attributed to the parts of the audio systems, more than 50 % to the complex embeddings...

Which is the use of marvellous pricey speakers in a bad acoustical room?

More than 50% and probably under 60 % of the increased S.Q. will come from a rightfull mechanical, electrical, and acoustical embeddings...

Then choosing well electronic components without figuring how to embed them will be costly in dollars and in S.Q. in term of audio experience...