Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed?


I'm talking $50,000 and higher amps, speakers, cablesetc. I know there is excellent sounding gear from $100 to infinity (much is system dependent, room, etc). However, just curious if someone made the leap and deep down realize the "expected" sound quality jump was not as much as the price jump. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to make that jump. However, looking at another forum's thread about price point of diminishing returns got me wondering if anyone had buyers remorse. It's not easy to just "flip" a super high priced component. 
aberyclark
The Everest are discontinued cables. Are not there anymore for many many years. Second the most expensive hdmi cable is the Diamond and costs 935 dollar. 

You are talking nonsense. The Hurricane is even in the US below 1500 dollar. The most expensive one the Dragon is  below 5000 dollar.

Audio is all about facts :)




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Bingo!

besides, it doesn’t make sense that Audioquest which has been high end for a very long time suddenly went, what, MidFi. If it doesn’t make sense it’s not true.
$50K would be for a 13’ pair of non biwire WEL Signature speaker cables, bi-wiring almost doubles the cost so a standard 8’ pair biwired would run $60K or so

In my experience the WEL Sig speaker cables are a little too expensive for the quality they deliver. I get much better results from the analog interconnect that I have a lot of, at a more ’reasonable’ $7.5K per 1M (I have an 8M balanced run that I got at a very good price)

The new Dragon HC power cord is a relative bargain at $4.4K for 1M, and the base Dragon low current (for sources) is half that. As both of these cables absolutely hands down destroy the previous WEL Signature power cords (which were $4K) I have to say they qualify as a bargain. I believe that the Hurricane that Bo alludes to is the sweet spot in the line and also very fairly priced -- the Dragon’s have silver in them so run more than the Hurricane’s which are all copper

I currently use WEL Sig for all my analog interconnects and a mix of AQ Dragon and SR Galileo for my power cords. AQ Digital cables are OK but can be bettered by Transparent and others -- I use a mix of Transparent Ref XL and Marigo’s top end AES/EBU.

Anyway AQ certainly cover the full range from entry level to high end -- one of the main complaints against them being the complexity of their product hierarchy.
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