What is the current retail cost of your reference system?

About half of what my car collection is worth.

I’ll play.  I’m retiring early so this is probably my end game.  I started this system two years ago.  

BnW 802D4 26k

shitty HT amp (upgrading as soon as stock market rebounds to Moon 860Av2) 20k

Cambridge CXN streamer 1.3 k

HT subs 4k (plan to upgrade to 10k)

x-over (JL audio) 3k

power con 1k

cables 1k

Acoustic Curtains/DIY Panels 1.5k

64k Total.  Wow. I could have bought a Tesla.  

Retail around 50k

Out of pocket around 30K

I have a 50k boat but most of my friends have 150-250K boats. They look at my speaker cables and think I am nuts. I see them working their ass off on their boat and think their crazy. 

Everybody spends their money a little different. I do not mind spending 150-200 on a bottle of Tequila . Some folks think that is excessive. If you dont make yourself happy nobody else will. 

29% -- Speakers

5% -- Subs

10% -- CD

13% -- DAC

11% -- AMP

4% -- Vibration Isolation

13% -- Power conditioning/distribution

1% -- Router

14% -- Cables

Interesting... a wide variance in equipment quality.  Yet so many strong opinions on items that affect SQ.  While my stuff is more at the high end of these estimates, I'm a chump at the local dealer who sells $250K and up... Magico, etc.  How can we really share SQ experience on say, cables, with member owned systems from Sonos to $1M plus?  All good but just huge differences in resolving power.  And what important to each of us.