CWlondon: What a coincidence. I am using the same Monster M1 and M-1000 in my system that you have listed in yours. I won them in a contest put on by CD Review magazine a good while back, giving me an undue fondness for audiophile magazines:)
Thank you for your response to my post. I do not assume much correlation between price and performance, feeling the performance improves linearly with discerning purchases, while price increases expontentially. I agree strongly with you that buying used on audiogon is the way to go for bang-for-buck. I was just wondering how much of the possible bang available I was experiencing with my current combination of used and new equipment (my cost $12,000). One professional reviewer that I posed this question to would place a well-designed $12,000 system at about the 90 mark on the 100 scale.
Thank you for your response to my post. I do not assume much correlation between price and performance, feeling the performance improves linearly with discerning purchases, while price increases expontentially. I agree strongly with you that buying used on audiogon is the way to go for bang-for-buck. I was just wondering how much of the possible bang available I was experiencing with my current combination of used and new equipment (my cost $12,000). One professional reviewer that I posed this question to would place a well-designed $12,000 system at about the 90 mark on the 100 scale.