How much does your system retail for?

Most of my gear is Audio Note. Retail price is $63,000.00

My wife knows how much I spent on this system. She tells me often. She is off by $3,000.00 so she rounds it off in my favor at $60,000.00. Nice wife hay?

Around $25K not including the DVD transport. Sadly, that price is essentially a single disc CD player. Maybe it's getting time to rethink this hobby...

Mine adds up to about $45k. I have been involved in this hobby about 28 years- a little longer if I count the used 32w/ch Kenwood receiver I bought Sophmore year in college. I wish I had the money to put together a really good system. I wish I had invested my money in a 401k so I could retire someday. But then all my stock investments these days have appreciated less than my stereo system.

Truthfully, my sound system sounds better than ever, but in the old days there was a certain sweetness to pulling out the soldering iron with my buddies and making our own mods and upgrades with WonderCaps, wiring and connectors.

Too much.

Askat1988,

You know about the ill effects of loud headphone listening have on the hearing?

Let's all be careful so we can enjoy this glorious hobby 'til end days...

My system adds upto the grand total of > $500.
The reason I don't upgrade is the $30,000 system at the hifi shop I goto is not much better.

Mine does 90% of that at least !

If buy used and are patient and do research, you can get good sounds for peanuts - if we get to know the good mid-fi offerings, we can give them to our kids, and our parents (and loved ones) - let them in on this exciting hobby.