S7horton is right, but this has been my recipe:
$1500 Speakers - The Apogee Scintilla (glorious, but very hard to find)
$1500 Aleph P pre amp with remote
$2000 Acoustic Reality digital amp eAR2 (used, hard to find)
$139 Liteon 2001 DVDROM, LINUX System based wonder player (not sold in US anymore, because of the illegal things you can do with it)
0$ cables and interconnects. Throw aways and gifts
That is a 5k system. It is real.
Having to buy the eAR amp new would bring the total cost closer to 7k. That would leave 1k for wires in case you don't have generous friends.
For a smaller room, I would get the Apogee Stage, Acoustic Reality 100 watt Enigma, Phillips 963 rebuild by Acoustic Reality, and their preamp too.
That would give you a stunning system for 4k and it is relatively easy to put together.
$1500 Speakers - The Apogee Scintilla (glorious, but very hard to find)
$1500 Aleph P pre amp with remote
$2000 Acoustic Reality digital amp eAR2 (used, hard to find)
$139 Liteon 2001 DVDROM, LINUX System based wonder player (not sold in US anymore, because of the illegal things you can do with it)
0$ cables and interconnects. Throw aways and gifts
That is a 5k system. It is real.
Having to buy the eAR amp new would bring the total cost closer to 7k. That would leave 1k for wires in case you don't have generous friends.
For a smaller room, I would get the Apogee Stage, Acoustic Reality 100 watt Enigma, Phillips 963 rebuild by Acoustic Reality, and their preamp too.
That would give you a stunning system for 4k and it is relatively easy to put together.