New D'Agostino Monoblocks...$250,000

So, you’re going to keep a band set up in your house 24/7 so they are available whenever you want to listen to music or maybe 100 bands so you can listen to different kinds of music? That could get expensive and inconvenient. That’s what a stereo and recorded music are for. Live music is an occasional treat. Have you ever thought about that?

I have a world class musician available 24/7 with various instruments ready to go at all times. It's me.

Anyway you look at it, 250k for an amplifier is simply nuts in the context of listening to reproduced music. What in the world does it have to do with anything other than some deep pocketed narcissist'  power to show off his latest acquistion to those he wants to impress. No disrepect to Dan intended or implied, one has to make business decisions in order to keep on keeping on,  good luck and fortune to him, he seems a fine and deserving man who's skill in industrial design may superceed the sonic justification of a pair of 465 lb. 250k amps . One thing that can't be denied is they are quite pretty audio jewelry.  

How ironic that at the age where someone can afford such uber-expensive gear, his hearing has probably declined by 20 to 30 %.

Even more ironic, those amps might even be used to play Kenny G's "single-note-ear-bleeder" music.

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soniqmike,

I look at it from a positive point of view. That means those able to buy the amps are at 70-80%. Not even sure it's as bad as you make it out to be. It's usually ultra high frequencies anyway. I remember getting upset when I was younger when I would see the "older guys" driving the sport cars I wanted to buy but did not have the paycheck then. I give them credit to be able to live that life. It's not as if any of us here on Audiogon are extremely poor.