For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system.


Do you think, in retrospect, that you could have gotten better sound quality out of your sound system with much less money spend. Do you have any regrets for spending huge amount of $$$? If you can start all over again, what would be different this time around? Let’s talk about electronics only and not room improvement for now. I know they go together, but the subject becomes very broad - assume your room is near perfect for sound reproduction.

P.S. Mike Levine, please don't shy away from the subject.  

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@z32kerber 

 

It is great that you love your system. That is what is really important. Looks like you have a great one. Could you post some more photographs… the photo you posted looks great… but it is hard to see the components and venue. Looks great from what is visible!

I have loved my system (over the last 50 years) when it was valued at $10K, $20K, $40K, $60K, and now around $150K. Each step was a joy to achieve. It was always incredibly gratifying. I think probably only 10 people have heard my system in the last twenty or thirty years. It is incredibly gratifying to me. Which has always been the only point.  

Like a lot of previous posters I have spent many years getting my system to where it is now. It is somewhere north of $100K but less than $200K. It does sound fabulous as it should but depending upon what you want to do it isn’t as simple as tapping a couple of buttons. So if I could do it all over again, l would make it intuitively easy to get it up and running.

I am glad that I do not operate at this price level. $100k would be either too much or too little for me, and I am talking only one analogue source. $100k is just $25k multiplied by four - one for source, one for electronics, one for speakers and one for cables. It will give you a great sound but not top sound.

 

@inna If I’m not mistaken, we are talking about 100k and up and later on we lowered the standard from 50k and up to the sky. So where are you on this scale? We’d like to hear from you - the guy with over 6671 posts.  Please, tell us about the great sound you have.