Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed?


I'm talking $50,000 and higher amps, speakers, cablesetc. I know there is excellent sounding gear from $100 to infinity (much is system dependent, room, etc). However, just curious if someone made the leap and deep down realize the "expected" sound quality jump was not as much as the price jump. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to make that jump. However, looking at another forum's thread about price point of diminishing returns got me wondering if anyone had buyers remorse. It's not easy to just "flip" a super high priced component. 
aberyclark
Bo's posts are hard to follow? He comes around from time to time with his imagined "expertise" and posts long tributes to his seemingly vast (20 years? It was less a few rants ago) experience gleaned from selling audio gear and honing his superior listening skills, and his inherent ability to understand what few can ever comprehend: His posts. Example: "We create both sound and vision on properties. This will win in each individual situation of any trail and error system. Because all these systems have no foundation on how they have been created." First, get spellcheck, second, a clue.
I read somewhere that a group of cancer patients were mysteriously cured and the doctors were baffled until they realized someone with the nickname of bo1972 was secretly injecting them with the Tru-Fi serum.....Incredible load of cow crap....
Bo1947. you are using the word " proof ", rather than " prove ", in many of your sentences. fyi
I actually do not find that objectionable. On an objectionability scale of 10 I’d give it a 2.
The sound you hear is the best proof of everything. This is what you get at the end. People choose the sound what influences their emotion the most. So it is for every one overhere to understand that music is emotion.

So you need to create the sound and stage what is the most convincing and intense. Did you ever think about how the sound of voices and instruments is being formed and created.

This is needed to understand audio at all. You cannot control and guide any system by trial and error. When you only judge at the endresult of everything togheter. It is not possible to understand why the stage and sound of your system is what you hear.

I give you an example: This year I visited a shop and he (the owner) wanted to compare 2 loudspeakercables. So I asked him: when you take this one out, which properties you take out?

He said; I have no idea.

So I asked another question: which properties do you bring in when you connect the second cable?

He said: I have no idea.

The next question I asked: so you never have any idea why the stage and sound of your system is what you hear?

He said: I don’t think so.

So I said: This means you do audio by trial and error and only listen to the endresults?

He said: yess I do.

And I said you are doing pure audiogambling. And have no idea (foundation) what you are really doing?

He said: I think you are right.

This is not about being right. This is all about understanding that you need to do audio differently so you can control and guide your system to the sound and stage you want.

I used the words overhere  many times......you need to learn to look further!