Is there a ceiling limit on what you are willing to pay for an audio component?

We think the same...Thanks for the post...

Audio for me is acoustic problems...It is an occasion to think in a new world of dancing waves and an occasion to see how  my brain compute space and how my unconscious brain live in a time zone of his own...

I have never felt like a fool with audio.
 

I have values… things that I value and things I do not. Until I was 50 I never bought a new car… had cheap used ones, would not pay a lot for tp, I would never buy drinks at a bar, but I had a new PC every two years and would put a very significant amount of my income into high end audio. Because a very small improvement in my audio system would bring me great pleasure. Like the really good bottle of Bordeaux that I would save up for and have once every month or two.

High end audio is not a fools game for people that understand themselves and their values, recognizing the pursuit is extremely complex, but can be amazingly rewarding. I love extremely ambiguous and complex problems…so Audiophilia is perfect.

@mahgister 

👍 yes I believe we do.

You bring up a really good concept… about the unconscious brain. That is what we are supplying music to… the unconscious is the appreciator and it uses our conscious brain to do the analysis and work to allow us to enjoy the outcome of our pursuit of the high end. 

😊

When my wife's head hits the ceiling....that's my limit. ☹

I am not "poor" even in retirement...

But my wife control the supply money all my life because i dont have time or interest for money management and my only expanses were for books  and music...

When the day come to buy a 15,000 bucks dreamed system, she does not say no, but she does not say yes too...

i decided to go with an under 1000 bucks system vintage... I learned basic acoustic to fulffil my dreams , thanks to her management money skills, without her i would had as most people learn nothing and buy everything...

Now with my headphone system i even beat my speakers/acoustic room... Just in the bass department i go under 30 hertz... I am more than happy with my 600 bucks system...

For sure i dream about the ultimate upgrade  at 15,000 bucks who will give me not a system beating most audiophile average system but would be for the ratio S.Q./low price ( 15,000 bucks) one of the best in the world...because i know what i am doing now .... Thanks to my thrifty  wife...

 My very best to you...

When my wife's head hits the ceiling....that's my limit. ☹