Why do folks spend more on electronics than on speakers?

My electronics (amp & preamp) probably cost 3 times my speaker.  I have driven the same speakers with mediocre electronics and it's just not the same.  

I totally agree speaker comes first, but if you in love with a pair of power hungry speakers, you need to pay a premium for amplification. Thiel speakers is an example.

So you have some really cheap speakers?

They must sound great though.

I have spent vastly more on electronics than speakers. My DAC alone is about 10 times the value of my speakers.

Sitting here listening to an inexpensive Heed Elixer 60W class A through a pair of $6000.00 QLN Sonoras and it sounds AWESOME.

Now when I send it through my Qualiton X200 they sound FREAKING AWESOME but that is 7 times more expensive okay 6 times Tube Integrated. 
 

Hate typing on this IPad. 

I feel 20-25% of your audio system should go to your Loudspeakers 

having owed a Audio store synergy is key ,and the most distortion by far comes from your speakers roughly 3-5% on average when pushed ,Electronics under 1%

cables to 15-20% of your system budget should go there once gone you can’t make it up ,your front end is where everything starts and stops put in at least 15-20% , a high quality integrated amp in many cases better sound ,and better value 

for the preamp synergy is built in with-the amplifier , less power cords, and interconnects  an easy savings of-over $1 k for anything decent .

i am referring to a integrated say a minimum of$6 k on up and look closely to the volume pot a silver round Alps can like on prima luna for-example run it’s a cheap $25 carbon plastic conductive pot you loose a ton of low level detail,

agood resistive ladder ,electronic,or relays far better . Separates can be better but much more money outlay I separate components plus a good power-cord foreach as well as extra pair of interconnect's.