Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed?

I found that it's much easier to build a satisfying $25k system or even a $100k system.  Those systems necessarily have the lower resolution that covers up a lot of faults in the recordings and the systems. 

I wasn't really ready for the jump to the lower stratosphere where every component change revealed a flaw/weakness in my system that necessitated another commensurate component change.  For example, earlier this year, I unexpectedly was "forced" to upgrade my front end since I love CDs and EMM said that it was likely their last spinner, which revealed my speakers lack of clarity and further reinforced the fact that their top end was exceedingly bright.  So I decided to upgrade the speakers which confirmed my beliefs about my previous speakers but revealed that not only were my 300W monoblocs insufficient to properly drive my speakers (never thought I would say that) but more importantly made even clearer a whitish tinge in the treble.  I figured that was just part of high resolution until I was auditioning a set of replacement amps that can properly drive my speakers (and pretty much any speaker I can think of) and shockingly it went away (which was a bonus - there were many other factors that made me bite the very expensive bullet on the amps).  So, waiting on the new amps and crossing my fingers that I'll be where I need to be since the discretionary budget is tapped.

Synergy definitely doesn’t mean what you think it means. In any case, based upon what actual personal ownership experience are you making such generic ignorant statements?

I’m still not quite sure what people who have never actually owned $50k plus components are doing in this thread.

@joey_v 

Fair enough.  But then again I'm sure the OP knew what he was getting into by asking a question with such a limited scope.

After a certain point, it's all diminishing returns.  That last 5-10% will often cost you dearly. 

You also can't tell anything from a show.  Determining your system sounds better than a show system is saying nothing at all.  At best a show is a place for you to get an idea of items you might want to seriously audition later.

Can we please stop using the ridiculous argument that's being attacked but has never been made by anyone: that high price = high performance.  Of course money doesn't correspond to performance but that doesn't mean it can't.  In many cases, the best components are obscenely expensive.  That's life in the low volume world.  Did I want to believe that the D'Agostino M400s are as amazing as reported.  No and I didn't want to pay the price either.  But reality is reality, and they are not only as good as reported, but you'll not find anything on that level for half the price.