How much does your system retail for?

Whoa, I figured the median to about $10-15k. Mine is $5200, retail, soon to be around $7k with the addition of a turntable. I'm still just a college student though, so i can wear my audio insanity with pride.

I'm @~$30K for strictly 2-channel, but these reports surpise me too: I read one survey where only about 10% of rigs ran over $20K. Probably the bigger spenders have more of a tendency to report here?

Retail would be considerably higher than what I actually paid for this nonsense, but I figure each system breaks down to the following: $2,800, $2,700, $1,900, $1,500, $1,200, and $600. It probably would have made more sense to put together one killer system, due to always trying to make each system better, however I can always find a place in my house away from other family members to listen. This brings me to another topic, how many systems do others have? I know most households have a television in every room, how many audio systems do we have.

Yeah Sean, if my wife stumbled on this thread I'd probably wind up in divorce court. Then I'd have to sell the stuff to pay for the divorce. Since she believes it's my job to make the money, but HER job to spend it. Maybe in the long run 5 or 10 years from now I'd be better off bitting the bullet and giving her the money now. I saw a local guy selling great gear at ridiculous prices because he was getting married. I told him not to do it because in 3 or 4 years he'd be questioning if he kept the wrong passion. How twisted is that. Lucky for me my shrink has the same values as me (that's why I picked him). He told me I wasn't nuts, that the guy selling his gear was.

About $15,000 in two channel plus about $6000 in HT.