If Money Were No Object... A Fantasy Question


Let's say you're filthy stinking rich and had $1,000,000+ to spend on an audio system. What would you do, assemble a single SOTA system or for the same amount of money put together multiple very high quality (and certainly not cheap) non-SOTA systems.

This fantasy is in the either/or format. Points will be deducted for thoses who answer "both".
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Kharma Grand Enigma loudspeakers with the requisite subterranean listen room (cavern?). http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&974265178&openusid&zzTacs&4&5. Dealers and manufacturers would then be flown in to allow me to properly audition source equipment and linestage amplification (if required). A harem of 25 beautiful women would be used to change vinyl (which would be thrown out after no more than 3 plays). I would then outbid everyone on eBay to fund my over-indugent vinyl consumption. I'd lao buy rare NOS tubes and smash them with hammers to satisfy my morbid amusement.

*poof* then I'd wake up and do the following:

*Another EVS Millennium DAC for my bedroom headphone system, and another for my den (where I do my college homework - yes I am back in school again).
*Dedicated lines for my bedroom and den stereos.
*200amp service for my 1300sq ft house (why not?), with my own dedicated transformer at the utility pole. Cryo'ed wire from the utility pole, and all throughout the power distrubution to my system
*a truckload of Mapleshade heavyfoot cone footers for everything
*Walker Extreme SST treatment
*Mapleshade ionclast
*Mikrosmooth
*custom shelving build by an accomplished cabinet maker to house the following: books, vinyl, laserdiscs, DVDs, VHS, audiocassettes, CDs, SACDs.
*some nice listening room art. (a must!)
*Keg'erator with Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold on tap. Pop vending machine for my wife. (she's always wanted one of those)
*two turntables, a Teres and a Michell GryoSE for the main system, couple Schrõder tonearms, a Expressimo RB250, couple dynavector carts, a ZYX cart, and a Hagtech Trumpet phono. I can't just have one TT!!
*new projector screen
*new couch/futon
*Pioneer Elite CLD-95 laserdisc player
*rebuild fees for my Maggies.
*active XO rebuild for the maggies.
*two more pairs of quicksilver silver mono amps (to actively biamp my mains, and the other pair for the rears [ passive XO])
*multichannel linestage for SACD and DVD-V, but one that will fold 5.1 back down into 4.0.
*level 1 Rives consultation to help with the set up.
*some more Straight Wire interconnects. (most synergetic match thus far!)

Oh yeah, and an iRiver portable music player for my wife.

Aaron
Mint604, while limit yourself to just one turntable and just one arm on each table? Take a tip for Raul (I believe). Get Lloyd to make you a custom table with his linear tracking arm and an extra arm mount for a Schröder. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. :-/