Ok this will be a good thread.

For me,the most important considerations are the compatability of the components and the system's fit in the listening room.
You could take expensive pieces,mismatch them,have them too large or too small for the room and end up with an expensive mess. You could take value priced pieces,match them properly,attend to their compatability with the room and end up with a good result.

Asa, yes in relative term, you are right. Man are always differents, knowledges, levels... Last question, since when you're not a man?

Twl, so what do you see?
... Coastline...

Zapper, did you say "personal" taste? Thankyou! Hahhaha....

So Marco, perhaps we should have left OZ out of it......

LOL Unclejeff! Yes, I guess L. Frank Baum just doesn't pass muster here on Audiogon.... I should have been quoting Heidegger, Neitsche, or perhaps Sun-Tzu!

Marco

Oh uncle and Marco, don't be spoiled sports. What are you afraid of? Big words, big idea? What makes it look big to you?

Yes, switching to that Rapala floater was a good move...

6ch: yes, of course. Before man = deeper face. Also, though, "level face" = face: Form not different from form-less; form-less not separate from form. I know, as soon as I open my mouth and spat out "level" you/it/Tao hits me with a bamboo! :0) (and another :0) for now frowning Marco who doesn't like symbol ":0)")

But, "level" "flag" "grain" are the floaters...

On stereo, yes, pragmatist, you are right. It is how you make a sauce that determines how it tastes.

Putting together a streeo is an art, which is why I like talking to all of you stereo-artists - some even stereo artist-teachers like twl, and in a different way 6ch. And even those of you who are in the closet about your "art" because it doesn't sound "scientific" enough (to the mirror), or has big words (like big macs and big fins...)

BTW, who is L. Frank Baum? What did he say?

Twitch, twitch. Twitch, twitch goes the line...