HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH TO SPEND ON A SYSTEM? IF YOU GET THE SOUND DOES IT MATTER?

For networths indicated below, it is good to not exceed indicated rig costs in 2025 (to mitigate maximal diminished returns).

Networth: Rig cost

10k to 50k: Walmart boombox (just kidding, get Hifiman headphones)

100k: 1k

500k: 3k

1 mill: 10k

10 mill: 50k

100 mill: 100k

500 mill: 100k

1 bill: 100k

100 bill: 100k

500 billion (Vladimirovich, Elon, etc): 100k

If you are well off, you would set up a few different rigs for different flavors.

But, spending more than 50k, 100k on a single modern 2025 rig is quite meaningless, if you are looking at the sonics and diminishing returns aspects of things. You never went up the sonic ladder as spent your way into a million or whatever.

Very recently, i saw a couple of dudes pick a 27 dollar cable for sonics over a 100k cable on a blind test, go figure....

People spend $50k on vehicles every day. No big deal. Why is buying a nice audio system viewed differently? You could buy a used vehicle for cheap and it would get you where need to go.

Sky should be the limit for a toilet paper roll too.

For a long time now, some charlatans have been trying to claim that the price of 3 dumb drivers in a box can be a million dollars somehow...he’ll do "r&d" apparently to make the soundstage stretch to the sky. A piece of wire costs 100k somehow with these charlatans.

If it works for 3 dumb drivers in a box and some wire, a toilet paper roll (fancy one) should cost a million too, why not?

"IF YOU ARE RICH, WHY NOT?", said the charlatan. He must think rich people are stupid as doorknob stoopid. Some of the rich ones got rich because they were way smarter than you charly/charlito... try harder.