How much do you have to spend?

My antivibration system sits on green jello blessed by bill cosby.it was the Olympic ice rink that cost me the money to keep it cool.straws are cheap just stick in the jello when your sugar goes down. I buy 95 % used traveled the usa in my truck and trailer and met alot of nice audiophiles. That was the best part. No real brick and morter in my state. Enjoy the music build your own cables it's fun burning your fingers with the iron.😃

The OP's question is akin to "How high is 'up'?" What are we talking about here? A headphone setup? A bedroom system? An outdoor patio system? A full on purpose-built audio salon? 

$1K? $10K? $100K? More?

I'm amused by all the purposeful attempts to answer such a vague question.

Happy listening.

Yeah, I just assumed a big room and very high level set up.

The money question is impossible to answer because you could put together a nice sounding system for a few thousand dollars or hou could spend a million. In terms of allocation, I would always put the most money on speakers. 35 or 40% of the entire system but opinions differ on that

on a serious note, I think the 5K used number is very true. I usually end up in the range. Once in a while I buy a 4K component (2K used) but then sell and happily swap it with something for half of that.