Hello,
I thought it might be interesting to find out how people split the cost of their system. So I ask you to give me a high level split. If I get a lot of responses, I will work out the averages.
To keep things simple I want to ignore all the IT costs, so I am not asking about the costs of storage, NAS drives, networks etc., Nor am I asking about room treatments (I know its important, its just too big a subject to summarize simply).
Also I would like to group systems into a few very broad cost bands.
To work out your own percentages, use what you actually spent, not list prices or as new prices, nor "what its worth now". Just use what you spent.
These are the figures for me:
System category: Sub 10K, 10K to 50K, 50K to 100K, over 100K
Streamer & DAC |
13% |
Turntable, arm, cartridge and phono stage |
25% |
Amplification |
36% |
Speakers |
22% |
Cabling (power, interconnects and speaker cables) |
2% |
Furniture |
2% |