@jetter you cannot seriously tell us that anything under 10K is not junk
Absolutely I do think so.
Without doing much thinking, a new Pass xa25 is about $5K. A set of the new Clayton Shaw Caladan speakers are around $3.5K. Quicksilver mid monos are $2K a pair as are their preamps. There are the Schiit products mostly in the $2K and under range. These are new prices, about half for used. Many, many others. In my world these are not junk.
That said, what I tried to put across is that those of us with less expensive systems are having a ton of fun owning and listening to our systems. And someone asks for a little help with his system which he probably is proud of and some pompous ____ tells him he needs a whole new system. Not cool.