I would go 50 to 60% speakers, 30 - 35% on Pre/power/integrated/sources, that should leave about 15% at least for room treatment, and maybe 5% for cables and power conditioning. Don’t spend more than $10 on Ethernet. Uptone and other products are 100% snake oil.
Order of importance and budget percentages
I’m redesigning my system again…. About to sell all cables and some gear to make a large upgrade
from really knowledgeable people please in a 50k or 100k MSRP system for example….
How would you spend your cable budget proportional to speaker, interconnects, power and Ethernet?