If someone gave you $4,400 and told you you could either spend $4,000 on the speakers and $400 on the amp or $4,000 on the amp and $400 on the speakers, which would you do?
Speakers can have more profound effect on the sound than an amp. Maybe a really tubey tube amp could be worse under certain situations but most for most people it's speakers.
SS amps are very similar usually if they are of high quality. Much more similar than two similarly priced speakers.
I would agree with the hen/egg paradigm. HOWEVER, atmasphere gives a nice and simple overview of the matter.
In this light, a subjective solution to the conundrum is simple: single out which one of these two components is a favourite (as in, I love these spkrs! or, I love my amps).
The other component being incidental, we can choose whichever will perform with our "loved" one.
Remember, you are asking this question in the speaker forum. :-) However, I do agree with the overall sentiment expressed above that speakers determine the sound quality most.
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