What is the current retail cost of your reference system?

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.

I'm not sure what everyone is getting out of this.  It turned out to be a good exercise for me because breaking it down into percentages (for the first time) let me see what my distribution of spending is.  While it is true that price does not exactly correlate to quality, if we're going to be honest we'll admit that there is a relationship.  Someone can't charge a lot for a mediocre product, at least not for long, and when someone puts in the engineering work to create a great product, like any other business, they want to see as much return as they can.  I'm sure there are exceptions to both categories, but by and large it holds true.  Looking at my distribution I'd have to say I either got a real deal on my amp, Hegel H390, or it may be the next thing to consider.  It's also interesting to see that my second highest system investment has been in cables.  Thanks, @JPWarren58 for posting the question.