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

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. 

How do you find out if you could have got better sound cheaper?

It is in the nature of decisions that once made there can be no going back.  You choose your road and never see the others.  Yes you could sell it all up and buy cheaper.                But why, assuming you don't need the money?  

We should cut out hypotheticals here, they go nowhere.