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Insanely Expensive....and Worth Every Penny

There are many threads which discuss things like "80% of the performance at 20% of the price", how overpriced certain components are compared to others, and how some components fail to hold their value on the used market. So here is a cheerfully optimistic question: What component, accessory, set of speakers, or tweak have you purchased - preferably new - that was wildly, insanely expensive, and in your honest opinion really WORTH IT? Something that was delightful to own, and demonstrably superior to anything less expensive... (I hope this is not a very short thread.) Cwlondon  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread) 04-22-07

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Click title to read one, or click date to read all below it. 04-22-07   "wildly, insanely expensive", i don't know, but my ...   Newbee 04-22-07   My feeling is that those terms are mutually exclusive... i.e ...   Plato 04-22-07   I purchase much of my equipment used. however, both my von s ...   Tvad 04-22-07   Newbee i would say that the price of arc in the 80's was pr ...   Cwlondon 04-22-07   Buying a soundproof apartment in the uk to savor the delight ...   Gawdbless 04-22-07   As a tweak i think the harmonix golden toe tu-210 zx tuning ...   Velo62 04-22-07   "wildly, insanely expensive" implies madness or fo ...   Shadorne 04-22-07   Carver 2000 receiver, i paid $1,500 back in 1983. it was the ...   Getheleadout 04-22-07   My jadis jp 200mc preamp, which i think retails at about $30 ...   Rcprince 04-22-07   The chocolate watchband lp-'no way out on tower' , still sea ...   Jaybo 04-23-07   Two items - my lamm ml2s and avantgarde duo omegas.   Triode 04-23-07   Insanely expensive by my terms, my audio aero prestige which ...   Mariasplunge 04-23-07   Since no component is perfect, the idea that, regardless of ...   Mrtennis 04-23-07   If it isn't worth every penny to you, why would you buy it?   S7horton 04-23-07   years ago i purchased the levinson top loading transport, ...   Jerry_gt3rs 04-23-07   Of course mrtennis, you are discounting the value of time an ...   Bar81 04-23-07   My amps, audionote kagekis, are quite "insanely expensi ...   Larryi 04-23-07   No one has said their divorce to improve waf of the other in ...   Entrope 04-23-07: Rushton The Walker Audio Turntable my wife and I purchased. Very expensive, but worth every penny for vinyl nuts like us. Rushton  (Reviews | Threads | Answers | This Thread) 04-23-07   While not quite ie;-- but wep, i give you the adept response ...   Avguygeorge 04-23-07   Heaven help us! mrtennis returns with his psuedo-intellectua ...   9rw 04-23-07   Transparent cable prices vary by, even in the opinion of the ...   French_fries 04-23-07   S7horton: if you audition a component in your stereo system ...   Mrtennis 04-23-07   I was under the impression this thread was started specifica ...   Tvad 04-23-07   Mr tennis (and others), in my view the fault in the original ...   Newbee 04-23-07   If i may clarify this debate, yes, "insanely expensive& ...   Cwlondon 04-23-07   Mrtennis, if i'm ever taken hostage by a terrorist, i hope t ...   Fatparrot 04-23-07   i suspect the terrorist will be so hypnotized my mrt's diatr ...   Tvad 04-23-07   Insanely expensive: kimber 8tc for speaker wire. copper wire ...   Elizabeth 04-23-07   Tennis, you missed the point. regardless of how many other ...   S7horton 04-23-07   S7horton: mrtennis always misses the point.. that's part of ...   9rw 04-23-07   Great capacitors like the v-cap tftf or mundorf silver/gold: ...   Dgarretson 04-23-07   Gentlemen: i have not missed the point. put simply, if i au ...   Mrtennis 04-23-07   Mrtennis you now statebravo! a concise and easy to understan ...   Fatparrot 04-23-07   Wow, this discussion is deep. :) i'll nominate: zyx univer ...   Jmcgrogan2 04-24-07   Perhaps i have misinterpreted the question being asked. i w ...   Mrtennis 04-24-07   Ascribing pricelessness and emotionalism to a commercial pur ...   Dgarretson 04-24-07   Mrtennis which version of the quad do you think is most lik ...   Cwlondon 04-24-07   I purchased a pair of new pair linn isobariks dms way back i ...   Gawdbless 04-24-07   Gawdbless: please do not encourage mrtennis. he's likely to ...   9rw 04-24-07   Hey 9rw nice reply. you have made my day. thank you.   Gawdbless 04-24-07   I nominate the tron syren pre-amp. i use it with my avantga ...   Jeffreybowman2k 04-25-07   Hi cwlondon: the original quad, the esl, is priceless in it ...   Mrtennis 04-25-07   9rw, that was great! had me laughing out loud!   S7horton 04-25-07   9rw, sorry, but i think you need to work harder on your imp ...   Larryi 04-25-07   Of the components in the system i put together about 15 year ...   Puremusic 04-25-07   sorry, but i think you need to work harder on your impersona ...   Audiofeil 06-01-07   After adding up some of the receipts i've saved over the yea ...   Gbr 06-03-07   Gentlemen: after further consideration, it seems that if a ...   Mrtennis 06-09-07   I would nominate the halcyonics active isolation bases. two ...   Tbg 06-10-07   1. jadis ja30 dual mono amplifiers, yet another jadis nomina ...   Szutinglee 06-10-07   Conrad-johnson met1, a vacuumtubed, 6-channel preamp. wow d ...   Jeffreybehr 10-09-07   Bought my linn sondek new in 1984...no regrets...play record ...   Stringmun1 10-10-07   Linn sondek is insanely expensive, or for that matter a cj? ...   Tbg 06-14-12   The music first audio reference and the mfa baby reference a ...   Audiofun 06-14-12   "insanely expensive" is all in the eye of the beho ...   Mapman 06-14-12   Audiofun, i bought two halcyonic micro 4s. each made a major ...   Tbg 06-14-12   Tron syren full function pre-amp. given the opportunity i wo ...   Goldeneraguy 06-15-12   When i was a boy i thought the radio shack receiver i bought ...   Douglas_schroeder 06-17-12   Nothing. never have never will. expensive is ok if it's wort ...   Polk432 06-18-12   Tbg: i would like to hear my gear on a stillpoints rack some ...   Audiofun 06-18-12   Audiofun, what you are doing is not insane. i like you purch ...   Polk432 06-18-12   Polk432: thanks and i like your shout-out to the dos equis d ...   Audiofun 06-18-12   If a component is insanely expensive, it may disqualify itse ...   Mrtennis 06-19-12   Recently, i bought some insanely expensive midrange drivers ...   Larryi 06-19-12   Larryi , excellent addition to an already outstanding system   Goldeneraguy

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