Here's why amps can be more important than speaker

My subjective take, based on thirty years in the hobby, is that although the distortions in transducers are several orders of magnatude greater than those in electronics, the nature of the distortions in loudspeakers are consonant with the fabric of the music, whereas the distortions in electronics are amusical in nature. My particular proof would be that, to me, a cheap speaker with a great amp always sounds better than a cheap amp with a great speaker.

Utter nonsense. A bad speaker sounds bad, period. A cheap amp with a good speaker is far preferable. If you don't think the distortion produced by speakers is troublesome, then you simply don't care what real life sounds like and you have never heard an undistorted speaker. The distortion produced by apseaker does not occur as an ugly noise, but as a coloration - a 50 hz tone is produced as 60 hz, for example. It may not matter to you, but it is everything to me. Speakers and rooms are the real problems nowadays.

LOL Marakanetz, stop it you're killing me!
Thanks everyone for the comments.

Cdc, i agree. Our speakers are much better than we are willing to believe.

Paulwp, your dismissive comments reveal much more about the author than the system. No speaker on earth will reproduce a 50 hertz tone as 60 hertz. A 50 hertz tone will always be reproduced at 50 hertz with distortion components occuring at multiples of that tone, i.e. second harmonic distortion components will be found at 100HZ, but not 60HZ as you have so wrongly suggested. You know even less about physics than sound reproduction.
Marty