How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound?

I am not an audiophile (neither the ears nor the funds) so I can enjoy various mixes from used components (craigslist, goodwill) - Celestion F3, Hafler DH-200, CA 540p, Dual 506, etc. under a $150 each - my latest finds. (And I have an equal number of non-functioning gear unfortunately - I don’t always get that lucky)

Could I spend 15K if I was "forced" - probably, but I dropped such an ambitious goal from my bucket list.

(But if I were near a bluetooth portable speaker, I would genuinely want to use it as a football)

For all those saying that you need at least 10K as an entrance fee to good sound, just keep saving and you’ll get to this range.

https://futureaudiophile.com/how-many-audiophile-whales-are-there-really/

just keep saving and you’ll get to this range

that's great! I thought I would never! 

@grislybutter - a dollar here a dollar there. Some Krill here, some Plankton there, and eventually we can be the whales

@simao - sounds easy. It must depend on the balance where more money comes in than goes out. I am not a economist so these things are pretty mysterious to me.