What Does 80 Grand Get You Nowadays?

I hang out with some artists whose pockets ain’t so deep. Ya tell em about some affordable stuff that’s good instead, demonstrate it to them and they say ’holy sht’ and buy it.

You say the same thing to the audiophiles around here...and it is "beneath" them...even the ones with shallow pockets (something’s wrong with the brand name, not uppity enough, yada yada). 95% of them couldn’t tell the difference between a 300k rig and a 10k rig if a blindfold went on.

It’s never about the sound with these guys really...has to be some guy tinkering in his garage, claiming some miracle to make some audiophile feel elusive and uppity. That's the gist of it.

Well, let’s all just be glad that there are those with deeper pockets to buy such systems and hopefully keep manufacturers pushing the envelope of what - at least in theory - should sound better. Hopefully all those refinements will someday make it down to those of us with less disposable income. So, good for them. If I had a cool $100K to spend on a system, I think I’d do a LOT of shopping around and comparisons. But then, we all do that anyway don’t we, regardless of how much we intend to spend? That’s half the fun of this hobby or affliction we all have. Enjoying music is the other half. Have fun! Life is too short for bad coffee or bad sound. 

$58k.  Will add $20k for a total of $40k to build a system around it.

that marble everything will just make it sound superb @lanx0003 

Trust me.  After also buying the house, I will hang all sorts of deflectors to make room ugly but the sound superb.

@devinplombier, you have a system that rivals near-six figure systems. What do you have?

@onhwy61 

To be clear, my system rivalled surpassed one near-six figure system, as told in my original post. It possibly rivals others in that price range too, but I’m only making a claim about the one I’m sure about.

I should probably create a virtual system, but my system being mostly temporary and in flux I keep putting it off.

Anyway, at present I have a Krell KSP-7B pre driving a pair of Classé CAM-200 monoblocks driving Infinity RS-II speakers.

I checked out your virtual page @onhwy61 and I like your systems. It looks like you’ve invested a lot of thought and research and effort into them.

We seem to share a similar approach to system building, especially as it relates to value. I have around $2,200 - $2,300 in the above system.

Based on this, I would have expected some sort of sympathy rather than the overt hostility that came off of your first post; after all, I don’t see you spending $80,000 on meh-sounding gear either.

Your apology about the trolling part is certainly appreciated though. I’d like to think there was a misunderstanding.