If you could buy any system, regardless of price, what would it be?

My own aesthetic is in the Craftsman tradition where natural materials and human skill being more important than the commodity prices of the components.

Creating things of beauty from human hands and nature.

I have to say that it has been a very long time since I heard a megaspeaker in the > $200,000 price range that justified itself to my ears.

I can't say for 100% certain, but I'm thinking Oswald Mills speakers and Audio Note electronics. I'm sure that I would be very pleased with a number of other systems.

Without question, the mbl Master Reference System.

I had the unique opportunity to hear this system in a custom room that was designed specifically for this gear.

I've heard A LOT of systems in my life and I will never forget this one.  ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!  (Given the price it should have been, but still...)

Some years ago I was enjoying a beer with a regular who wanted to talk stereo. I had just bought something and told him about my system. My actual system. He listed off a bunch of gear he had in his. How’s it sound, I asked?

Oh, I don’t know, I only built it on paper.

What is with guys who think this is any way to talk?

Okay. Whatever. My system would be the Enterprise Holodeck. In fact, go ahead and make it the entire Starship Enterprise.

What did I win?