If I were to time travel back to see myself ...I'd say Dude ! you are going to have a hell of a good time enjoying audio your whole life !!!
Now to help you get to the sound I've found and love...me, having been you for 70 odd years, want to say the following to help ME get to where I am quicker !!
First, don't get hung up thinking you can ever find the perfect system....it's horses for courses when it comes to sound...
Don't look for perfection ever.
Listen widely to as many sound systems as you can, in as many setting as you can.
Particularly explore and study prosound .....installs and live. That's where you'll find pragmatic knowledge, ......about sound, about equipment, and how to achieve better sound.
Study where equipment is considered a tool, the means, for better sound. Not an object of desire.
Avoid the esoteric marketing and technical gibberish claims that too often accompany home-audio.
If fact, avoid home audio in general. And be damn careful with studio audio too...it can have a foot in each door, home and pro.
Don't think better and better electronics will bring better and better sound. Once a moderate level of good specification is hit, it becomes a waste of time and money.
Buy function first. Once function is met, changing pieces of electronic equipment, predominantly amounts to performing slight EQs .
Buy a good damn EQ, and a good sub from the gitgo.
Be ready to own several systems for several purposes/settings.
Speakers rule here.
Play with rooms. If I'm unable to set you/me on a new course, you will spend a ton of money on both dedicated indoor rooms and outdoor facilities.
Not sure if it's worth it...a great speaker stills rules with us to my current date, as our brain adjusts to rooms ..........
You decide for us LOL.
Oh, last...DIY rocks...strongly suggest you start building/designing speakers and learning the most modern processing techniques available. (knowing you will
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