Between 60k and 65k and loving it. |
$600 used.
Marantz 2270 receiver
Denon 370 Cd player - burr brown DAC
Celestion ditton speakers
Oneac power conditioner
DIY cables
DIY room treatments
I like the sound so much, that I can't find pieces to upgrade! I would goto a hifi shop and hear $30,000 systems, and I still like mine better.
I sometimes sleep infront of it - enjoying near field lestening.
I do have more expensive gears, but this set-up is enjoyable to me. If you are choosy, you can enjoy good sound for peanuts.
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$450. That's right, well under $1,000. System consists of a Technics SP-10 Mk II turntable (traded for a Rega Planar 3/RB300 that cost me $200), with a borrowed Syntec arm and a NOS Signet TK7LCa cartridge ($50). Will soon install a NOS Sonus Formula IV arm (cost $150). Speakers are B&W DM2 ($6 for the pair), can't recall if they are the "Mk II" version or the "A" version. Amplifier is an Akai M8 reel to reel ($35). This is a single ended (EL84) integrated tube amp with phono stage. Also have a NOS ADC XLM cartridge. I bought two of these for $75, sold one for $90, so the one I kept is free. Third cartridge is an Ortofon OM-30. Neither the ADC or Ortofon are compatible with the Syntec arm; both should suit the Sonus arm. |
Way under 10K
Angela 300b monos $2000.00
Reference 3A MM DeCapo i $2000.00
Audio Experience Symphonies $225.00
Shengya CD-S10 Tube HDCD Player $449.00
Cable wire etc $400.00
Total $5074.00 :-)
Just as good as anything out here ( Thinks me :-o ) |
Retail of: drum roll please 3,250 with out interconnects or speaker wire giong through an upgrade process of it right now and dont have the totals yet. as of today and im getting a new cd player well used but new to me and it will bring the total up to 4,000. Wow thats scarry becasue im a college student. At least it only cost 1,700 including the new cd player w00t. |
15,700 is as far as I wanted to count before even thinking about the cables they are hooked up with. Modest compared to many. Seeing that total, more then I thought. Real problem is... I'm not done with it! |
Hmm, I am up to 51k now. That is not including the room treatments. |
Slappys dogs look priceless. |
I guess mine retails for about $24,000. I like buying used but everything i bought new. I couldn't wait for it to turn up on the used market! |
The investment in the main system is approximately $27,500.00. It consist of a Red Rose amplifier, Red Rose pre-amp, BAT phono stage, Linn turntable, Sony SCD-1 CD player, Klipsh RF-7 speakers, Akai 747 DBX R-t-R and Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck. Interconnect and speaker cables are by Transparent. |
Too much ,for my wife to know.But hey the other day a guy at work told me he had to get a line of credit OF 60k from the bank to pay of his 40K debt that resulted from GAMBLING in Las Vegas.
That's canadian funds but still.So for all of those with the big systems including myself feel good .
Long live high-end.
George |
Somewhere about $35,000 and increasing as fast as I can make it. Are we all crazy or what? Great sound though. I mean just great. And worth every penny. |
~$7,000. i am a small fry on this website.
i'm actually pretty shocked although i'm happy to report that each time the retail price of my system went up the improvement was dramatic. what's even worse is that now that i have what i would call a legitimate mid-fi system i know it's pretty far from what an even more expensive one could do.
yes, my friends jaws drop when i tell them its 7k. i know it could easily grow to double that in a few years when i get into my 30's. |
Roughly $575.00 I win!!!
Technics Linear tracking TT with new Grado Silver cart. $200.00 ebay/needledoctor
Sumiko phono preamp $100.00 new
Pilot 30 watt integrated tube amp $100.00 off ebay, 40 years old. Came with telefunken tubes.
Cables $100.00 new
Model Seventeen Speakers $75.00 new
I would be waaaay to guilty if I spent more than say.. $10,000 on any audio setup regardless of disposable income. Plus I think I might feel like I was being sold snake oil at a certain price point. But, I'm a bargain shopper, i.e. Cheap. |
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11k not including the 125K for the house addition to really let the system open up and have a nice view while listening. I love it! Great thread to use to feel better at least until you get past 200K |
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Lost my way on my prior post.........I was stunned by some of the amounts spent by other people. |
Holy Cow, I feel a lot better about what I spend on audio...I've got a lot of extra stuff around but my "A" system has a Theta Compli, PS Audio HCA2 and PCA2 and PSB Stratus Gold i's.
I just use various mid-low end Kimber, Cardas and Monster cables, etc. |
I'd say about $800 retail, way lower in out of pocket.. but im still in high school, what do u expect??
lmao. you guys crack me up. i knew you guys like to spend, but daaammmmmnn!! im only 17 and with the new acquistion of my athena as-f2 speakers, i am definetly "seeing" (or hearing, in this case) why this hobby is so addicting! this is gonna be a looong journey. check back with me in few decades .. hehe |
2 channel system MSRP - $21k / add another $6k for the intergrated HT system. i have my system listed here on audiogon if you desire to have a look see. |
Sure. It's called marriage or death. |
Wow!
Not including cabling(which really would not amount to much), i am sitting at 1/10th of tireguy's msrp.
And damn it, I'm really starting to like my system! |
I am in the $50k club now- where's my membership card? :o) On a serious note, it seems that I am doing about $10k/year in upgrades- and I am fairly young, so by the time I am 40 I will be at or around the $220k range. Bare in mind that's in today's dollars, by then it will be approaching the 7 figure range- is there a cure to this sickness? |
$15k for my HDHT over the past 13 months of upgraditis. |
$32,350 for two channel. No regrets. |
HT system ~ $22k
2 Channel system ~ $17k (and seemingly growing exponentially)
More toys...I need MORE TOYS!!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! |
If you want to have some fun, go to the link Boa2 posted, and hit refresh every 5 seconds. Amazing! I don't feel so bad now. |
About $2700 retail. I paid around $1450 and it sounds wonderful.
NAD C320BEE Integrated
NAD C541i CD
Paradigm Studio 40's
AudioQuest Opal x3's
Olympus Demeter speaker cables |
$1439 Albert?...I'll send you a check today...hey...I'll make it an even $1500...better start packing, it'll probably take a while...I'm sure shipping wont be cheap...will you split the cost with me? hehehe |
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ |
$1439.00, just ask my wife. |
Just including the main system that is used for 2-channel music reproduction only the retail replacement cost would be within a few $s of $40k. This is a staggering sum in my opinion, as this excedes the cost of my two cars. |
About half of what it did last month! |
Can't believe I've never seen this thread before! Ok here goes: $17,700, the good news being actual expenditures are about $8240. Thank God for Audiogon! |
Around $80k for my 2 ch, plus another $38k for HT. I bought most of the 2ch pre-owned from AG, but mostly new for the HT gear when I first started. Thank god I have learnt. |
HT/2ch hybrid: ~34,000 (i added up 33,820 but i know i'm forgetting a ton of small-but-expensive little things like PCs, brackets, labor on some in-wall wiring, etc)... god, i often think i'd rather have a (slightly) used porsche boxter s or ///m3 coupe, but every time i get home and really listen, i realize you can listen to music in your car but you can't be MOVED by it, no matter how fun the vehicle... i like to think in the terms of those master-card ads:
Home Theater: $35,000
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Special Edition: $35
Pizza (including delivery): $15
Feeling the hair raise on the back of your neck: Priceless :D |
The retail value of my system is around $17500. However, the amount of money I have invested about $8800-.
Happy Listening,
Damon |
Shoot, it's amazing how fast that stuff adds up. Look at Ehoehn's system. Not really anything that I'd consider overly extravagant, but it still comes up to more than 20 grand. Thank god for A'gon and the joys of buying used |
Bryston 4BSST - 2800
Bryston BP-20 - 2400
ACI Jaguar / LFM - 7000
Arcam FMJ-23T - 2100
Dodson DAC-263 - 2600
Audience AU24 IC - 502 per pair (x2)
TG Audio SLVR PC - 500 x 4
Symposium Svelte - 200 x 2
Symposium Roller - 300 x 2
DH Labs Q-10 SC - 200
Total - 21000 |
~ $90k at retail, I'd guess. |
About 25k retail, and that's without the stuff I can't remember the cost of. It also doesn't include all the "small stuff" like brushes, fluids, sleeves, and all of the assorted crap that comes with analog. Now if you add all of the tubes (I have about 200), God only knows.
Jesus, I thought I had a low dollar system! My wife would file today if she had any clue.
Of course, buying off the 'gon has saved me shitloads over retail.
Now, if you add the HT setup, that brings in another 20k or so.
At least my house is worth more than Albert's system! |
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well its hard to tell because i change components weekly
i do nieghborhood cleanup and get the most wonderful stereos free. i just got rid of the adcom a1a amp and carver pre i was using last week and am playing with a pioneer with rogers studio 7 speakers it sounds so good and it makes my chest feel like its caving in,.
ears ringing ect.
best of all its in the cab of my truck as im looking for more. ran off a 750 watt inverter and the cleanest sound ive ever heard in a vehicle.
anyway my system never costs more than gasoline to go find it. |
Is this for our current system only, or for all of the damned buy/sell/trade I've done in the past 5 years? |
LOLOL...look how much I missed while I'm out of town...I was jonsing so bad for the Gon that I'm sitting in a Kinkos in Santa Fe right now...and I gotta say...Agon is worth the $12/hr internet charge more than my email |
Bob ,stop being so modest!
NEAR SOTA |
My 2 channel stuff is about to turn to dust and blow away it is so old, but guess I could replace it for somewhat over 100K........ |
Or maybe we can involve you in the John Kerry massive redistribution of audio wealth program where we take stuff away from the people with the best systems and give it to Slappy and Ellery911 Hence the term "Cash and Kerry." |
Heh. Yeah!!!!!
well, i aim to work on the HT part first. THen the 2ch. already got random parts for both, just need to replace speakers and stuff, get a multich amp, probably some electrostats for the 2ch as well. but at least i have a clear plan for a good affordably ht rig, the 2ch wil be one of those "Ever evolving" rigs. |
