Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
I've always maintained (and experience confirms this) that the only way to obtain a truly musical and sonically rewarding hi-fi system is to start from the ground up and provide a well-sorted 'foundation' from which the system operates, so in terms of order of priority it is therefore thus:

MAINS > CABLES > STANDS > EQUIPMENT.

No other method in my experience gives satisfactory results. If you ignore the system's 'foundation' and spend all your money on boxes the full potential of the equipment will never be realised,
Surely you need some equipment first before you can make any sort of sensible decision on cables and stands? How else are you going to hear what's going on?