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

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.

well, in that case @wolf_garcia I just bought an $80 speaker cable!

You should have bought 2. Note I needed some slightly longer cables which led me to the Kimbers, and a 3.5 meter pair was around 500 bucks. A steal.

Some may judge others guilty of this, doubt any audiophile ever admitted to this in regard to their own spending unless they're in debtor prison or lost family and friends over their expenditures.

I’ve actually reduced the retail cost of my amplifier 75% in the last few years and it sounds the best ever.  True story.