Dream vs. Reality - What have you bought?

Dream: Some years ago, I heard Grand Ventures (ancestors of the current Grand Ultimate Mk III?)  at RMAF.  Not sure 100k+ for any speakers is a good use of resources, but I thought they were absolutely stunning, and conspicuously better than many flagship speakers I've heard.
Reality: Listening to speakers at a (nominally) more reasonable 10k (give or take), I've been struck that while many are very nice, few stand out from the pack as clearly superior choices.

Nice dreaming about FAL Supreme speakers driven by Kondo amps. But a dream. So i started with Kondo KSL interconnects, long way to go.
But i enjoy much what i have for now.

G

I guess it all depends on what you are listening to: a high power amp with low efficiency, multiple driver speakers will do a good job on wall-of-sound rock but be challenged on piano solo or string quartetts. Conversely even horns on SETs will not produce the sound pressure needed on the former. So basically you start with sound pressure vs.resolution. I‘ll be contentious in saying that the power amp defines the rest of the chain. I started with Accuphase pre and power and IMF transmission lines, moved to Chord amps and B&W 801s to move to Graaf otls and Duevel Omnis. from there I moved to a Wavac power amp and now have the Duevels for 20 years. Obviously the front ends have changed quite a bit as well, fundamentally though the changes were always derivative to the Amp and speaker combination.