I Have 100K for Speakers?

It gets silly when you are new to the hobby and are thinking of spending 50-100K on speakers. Great systems come from experience - throwing money at building a system often ends up in very dissapointing results. I rememeber a fellow who knew nothing about audio, but made a killing in stocks in the early 80s computer boom - I went to his house to listen to his $200,000 system, I did not have the heart to tell him that it was all I could do to not run out of the room.

Gregm,

30k..See that to me still seems way up there. Even if I wanted to spend 30k AND had wifes approval I don't think my ears could tell differences enough to be cost effective..Maybe my ears are going. Not too sure.

Yoou can easily find SOTA speakers for 30k or considerably less; the rest is vanity.

Silliness or insanity in this hobby (as in most) is largely a matter of degree.

While to many of us $100k on speakers seems insane, how many of us have spent hundreds of dollars on interconnects or power cords? In the eyes of the average person, that's insane.

The person mentioned by the original poster is coming from the world of high-end cars. In that arena, $50k - $100k is probably entry-level.

Duke
dealer/manufacturer/terminally insane

You're definitely NOT getting $100,000 worth of sound. You're paying, maybe $10,000 worth of materials $60,000 in labor - and that's everything from R&D, craftsmanship, testing, etc. The rest is "Value to YOU" Rarity, Cutting Edge Technology, Exclusivity, Owning the Best, etc.