What of your gross annual income is your system?

Retail = 70%
What I paid (combination used and retail) = 36%

.... yikes!

Retail = 44%

But retail prices aren't really fair. If you just figure the ESL's, tubes, and my cd front end. In used dollars I paid 18%. Retail would be 41%. Any DIY stuff is added at parts cost, just to be fair.

Add the tuner, tape deck, more interconnects. Used I paid 20%. Retail would be 44%. That's the whole system.

HT gear (by itself) adds up to new and used 8%. Retail 10%.

amp 26%, pre-amp 13%, speakers 19%, wires 16%, source 10%. the remainder is the rack and power conditioning.

About 5% ... yikes what a scrooge ! Add in my vinyl and CDs and it's about 10%. Never mind the low cost I still love it, and I love even more that it's completely paid for and debt-free.

What's annual income? I think I used to have something like that before I got into this crazy hobby, but I don't remember now.

About 20% in hardware for my main rig at new prices (EVERYTHING bought used, man am I cheap), 7% in my half-assed HT, about 5% in software (better go buy some more music, quick).