$39K for the Linn Klimax DAC/streamer?

Could someone buy me a new car?

I have a ND 555--I recall that it is more than $24k, with the 555 PS added in (not an option) and the UnitiCore ripper and hard drive).  I would consider it to be in a comparable price class as the Linn.  I like it, but, I cannot say how the two compare .  I would expect the Linn to sound good, given their track record with digital gear.  

It needs to be remembered what this is, is the CD12 technology completely upgraded to the nth degree.  There were 2 major revisions of it over a no. of years, the mk2 giving it substantially more dynamics & more & mk3 bringing it to an entirely different & altogether better level overall.  This would be at least the equivilent of a mrk4, 5 or perhaps a higher level. A pretty SOA streamer any way you look at it. Scarf doesn't mention what other streamers he's heard at all, so that conspicuous absence if anything, points to the fact that there are likely others competitive he's pointedly not referring to.  The audio magazine business is always a touch precarious, not least of all now. So the fact that Linn is such a heavy advertiser (2 full page color ad in the issue where this is reviewed & the only photo on the cover in addition to on an ongoing basis) has zero relevence, a touch more or somewhat more then that?

You tell me.

No matter what rediculas price is put on any streamer, it can only capture, reproduce and sound as good as what comes from the source and stream. Right now about any $500. streamer on the market will faithfully and acuratly do that. Above that, audiophiles with deep pockets and golden ears are hearing something that isn't there.....Jim