I have read numerous posts regarding the relative importance of speaker quality vs other components in a system. Quite a few audiophiles out there believe speakers are the most important link and therefore should constitute the biggest expenditure. It seems to me that your source would be the most important given it’s the origin point. Speakers should faithfully reproduce the signal originating from the source, via the amplifier. My personal experiences seem to support this notion. Of course, any system is only as good as its weakest link, but I am curious why so many seem to subscribe to this belief. Interested in your thoughts.
Speakers make more impact than for instance a DAC. Your room actually makes the most impact. And you can measure that with REW and a mic.
You can exchange different DAC’s in your system and the frequency response doesn’t change all that much.
You can change speakers and you’ll get a major difference in the frequency response.
But also yes, crappy recorded music sounds crap on $100 systems and on $10.000 systems so in that case the recorded source is also important. But you can only get as good of a source as the original mastering.