Price No Object Amps

Just posting for human interest/curiosity purposes. I wouldn't suppose anyone on AGON has one of these, however, from a sonic performance perspective, which would you choose?
https://www.whathifi.com/features/10-worlds-most-expensive-stereo-amplifiers?utm_medium=EMAIL&ut...

gdhal07-17-2017 5:40pm

dragon_vibe Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 430 posts 07-19-2017 at 08:28am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The Atma-Sphere Nirvana Amplifier or the MA1 or MA-2 or the MA-3
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dragon_vibe Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 430 posts 07-19-2017 at 02:43pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Is it even possible to build a 2 million dollar Amp would be my question. How much Engineering knowledge would be put into it to justify such a price tag.
atmasphere Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 11,574 posts 07-19-2017 at 03:19pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @gdhal And it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s one of yours :) You're right, but it was the S-30, which costs about 2 orders of magnitude less. Even if gold wire is used, I don't see how a product doing what some of the amps on this list do could cost that much. But there is something called the Veblen Effect, which has to do with the idea that when something costs more, you are also getting a greater value. Which means that they could be priced high to invoke a sense of greater value. Quite often though the 2nd hand market sorts those sorts of things out.
inna Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 7,132 posts 07-19-2017 at 11:39pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete higherfi.com has a $600k turntable for sale. Take a look. It even has an electronic microscope built in.