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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Two points-

First- life is about the zeros. If you have enough zeros after your net worth, you can have more zeros after your audio system or other hobby.  Therefore, the more interesting question is for those who have spent a higher % of net worth (for us older guys) or income (for you younger guys). 
 

Two- we have a “luxury tax” in place at our household.  If I spend $10k on a preamp, then we make a $10k donation to charity above and beyond our normal giving. This makes me consider each audio (luxury) purchase more carefully and has kept my system below the $50k threshold. It also keeps me driving a Toyota and not a Ferrari, which I could probably afford.

@z32kerber 

 

Thanks for posting your system. While I had to look up a couple of the components. It looks carefully chosen and sounds like it works well together. Careful choices of components can assemble really great systems for modest prices. Congradulations!

@charles1dad ---good comment regarding the sound of my Viking Acoustic speakers and Canary Audio Grand Reference 300B Mono amps.  Aren't we all guilty of wondering if there is something better out there?  Are we ever totally satisfied with our system?  I really want to be but the curiosity of what if will always prevail.  LOL

BTW if you want to hear my system, check out YouTube under Viking Acoustic Grande Voix Speakers.