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So you've just heard speakers that blew you away

and you can afford them. What do you do? Do you buy them and put them into your system or do you purchase the whole system you heard them with? I've been getting back into audio this last year and I've decided to sell of everything that I've put together over the last 45 or so years. Even the Stax headphones will be sold. I have been fortunate to have a friend sell me his integrated and it was the one I heard the new speakers with. I upgraded the cables I heard them with in the store, but I did stay with the same brand as it's the most neutral cables I've heard. I even went with the DAC he had in the system. I've always felt that no component seems to sound the same once you change anything in the system and I finally found a dealer who seems to have the same ear as I do and I'm trusting him and having a BALL again. I dont' even have the speakers or cables yet and I'm still loving my new system.

How do you guys do it?
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david12
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I start from the principal that I will not buy a component that won't fit into my current system, at least adequately. That is in terms of specs, will my current amp drive the speakers for example. Then I would normally get the speakers into my system and ensure there is adequate synergy with the room and my current kit. If there is and I still love the speakers, then I would buy them. Next I would add incremental changes, such as a new power amp as a loaner from the dealer. Is it better or worse and so on, till I am satisfied.

 Having said all that, I don't actually do it every time. My last and final speakers, Daedalus Audio DA-RMAs, I heard at Rocky Mountain, then ordered for transport over to the UK. I couldn't be happier though, so sometimes, you take a chance.

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