How much does your system retail for?

Back towards the end of '07 it was around $23k. It's now about twice that.

It piles up quickly doesn't it? I assembled my first real system back in my 20's when I was a carpenter. I had an annual budget of $2K, and I got by with old mid-fi gear until I had the complete system. Back in the late 80's one could assemble a decent system for $2K per component. Before the Internet used gear wasn't as easy to come by. My present system retails for about $5K to $7K per component, but through the joy that is Audiogon it cost me far less than that! About $25K worth retail, and $8K real money.

On 1/24/14 I posted as follows-

"As far as my wife knows, maybe $1,500 tops."

No longer have the wife.

Stopped counting at $40,000. Gave the ex a bunch of $ too so what the heck.

Need I say More? LMAO

There's a lot of guys who's wife are totally clueless. As I've enticed guys into buying things they didn't know they needed it always amazed my wife and I how many guys paid cash for things that go beyond their openly approved budget

Just did a quick re-tally of MSRP's over a year or so total rig re-haul via trades, upgrades, box swaps and additions all in at $91,485.00. lol... Sounds great though but thankfully for AgoN and the like we all pay "well" below MSRP's but even at used, huge savings it sure as heck adds up :)