If I can give one hard earned piece of advice to anyone starting out, is that it's 90% performance. That means everything before the microphone, from practice, to writing to arrangement (big one) to pre production to playing. A lesson I've learned too many times to count. I mean, I love gear. Loooove it. But its just the icing on the cake
I’ve got this front upstairs corner bedroom (11x15’) to build into. Guessing I’m going to want to put some acoustic panels up to help block sound into and out of the rest of the house. What have you done JJ?
It’s a factor, not the only one for sure. Also properly taxes are high in Texas and most of these big pro guys probably buy. If I’m in college and might play for a different school every year I would rent in Texas or Florida and realize the full state tax difference. Just one part of the financial consideration but it would probably only matter if everything else were equal.