If you could buy any system, regardless of price, what would it be?

Without question, the mbl Master Reference System.

I had the unique opportunity to hear this system in a custom room that was designed specifically for this gear.

I've heard A LOT of systems in my life and I will never forget this one.  ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!  (Given the price it should have been, but still...)

Some years ago I was enjoying a beer with a regular who wanted to talk stereo. I had just bought something and told him about my system. My actual system. He listed off a bunch of gear he had in his. How’s it sound, I asked?

Oh, I don’t know, I only built it on paper.

What is with guys who think this is any way to talk?

Okay. Whatever. My system would be the Enterprise Holodeck. In fact, go ahead and make it the entire Starship Enterprise.

What did I win?

ok so i will pull a millercarbon here...

click my username and look at the system/gear

there’s your answer op... :)

actually, not quite, there are about 5 systems’ worth of gear there... but you get the idea...

affordability of gear isn’t at issue... building the new house with the properly spec’d music room was many many many times more than the sum total cost of all the gear

If I had all the money to spend on gear, but NOT all the money to spend on a house....

I'd go for something small.

I think a lot of audiophiles will get extremely anxious if they had to pick the one system they cannot change forever.