HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH TO SPEND ON A SYSTEM? IF YOU GET THE SOUND DOES IT MATTER?

I disagree...you should spend as much as possible, or when in this forum you should at least exaggerate the cost so people respect you. I'm currently hiring groups of musicians to come over and play for me at least 8 hour a day, or using  my 600 lb horn speakers with a $350k turntable and a 2 watt amp. And mapman is right...nobody cares.

If you are well off, you would set up a few different rigs for different flavors.

But, spending more than 50k, 100k on a single modern 2025 rig is quite meaningless, if you are looking at the sonics and diminishing returns aspects of things. You never went up the sonic ladder as spent your way into a million or whatever.

Very recently, i saw a couple of dudes pick a 27 dollar cable for sonics over a 100k cable on a blind test, go figure....

People spend $50k on vehicles every day. No big deal. Why is buying a nice audio system viewed differently? You could buy a used vehicle for cheap and it would get you where need to go.

well, in that case @wolf_garcia I just bought an $80 speaker cable!

You should have bought 2. Note I needed some slightly longer cables which led me to the Kimbers, and a 3.5 meter pair was around 500 bucks. A steal.

Some may judge others guilty of this, doubt any audiophile ever admitted to this in regard to their own spending unless they're in debtor prison or lost family and friends over their expenditures.