Is there a ceiling limit on what you are willing to pay for an audio component?

I guess we're all fools here....well, all but one of us.

The fact that i learned how to not be a fool  anymore by being an active player and no more a passive consumer dont implicate that i am alone in this state here...

Then saying that my description EXCLUDE all other people and claiming that what i say implicate that all others are fool save me, is an erroneous judgement about my post and character ...

I had been a fool all my life in audio matter ... But i learned that to be more than a passive consumers is the road to freedom and knowledge by acoustic basic  EXPERIMENTS and experimenting with  creative simple devices ( i never bought tweaks) ... This experiments i created for me  dont make me the one and only wise dude here...

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Then dont put in my mouth  , what you feel in you and only in you...Dont confuse your feeling with my intention...

 Trying to communicate with others what i know for sure as i did dont implicate that i am the only wise guy here... There is many others more wise than me and with more experience in audio here , do you want name ?  😊

I guess we’re all fools here....well, all but one of us.

I have never felt like a fool with audio.
 

I have values… things that I value and things I do not. Until I was 50 I never bought a new car… had cheap used ones, would not pay a lot for tp, I would never buy drinks at a bar, but I had a new PC every two years and would put a very significant amount of my income into high end audio. Because a very small improvement in my audio system would bring me great pleasure. Like the really good bottle of Bordeaux that I would save up for and have once every month or two.

High end audio is not a fools game for people that understand themselves and their values, recognizing the pursuit is extremely complex, but can be amazingly rewarding. I love extremely ambiguous and complex problems…so Audiophilia is perfect.

I should have (and do have) other priorities, goals and hobbies that cost money. So it's easy to say, if I had $x, I would spend x/10 on audio. The flipside is diminishing returns. If I bought new speakers, significantly better ones than current ones, I would need a new room, which is not possible i my current house, so I would need a new house and then I would realize it's a whole lot of money that I could find much better uses for. I guess that defines me as a non-audiophile.

We think the same...Thanks for the post...

Audio for me is acoustic problems...It is an occasion to think in a new world of dancing waves and an occasion to see how  my brain compute space and how my unconscious brain live in a time zone of his own...

I have never felt like a fool with audio.
 

I have values… things that I value and things I do not. Until I was 50 I never bought a new car… had cheap used ones, would not pay a lot for tp, I would never buy drinks at a bar, but I had a new PC every two years and would put a very significant amount of my income into high end audio. Because a very small improvement in my audio system would bring me great pleasure. Like the really good bottle of Bordeaux that I would save up for and have once every month or two.

High end audio is not a fools game for people that understand themselves and their values, recognizing the pursuit is extremely complex, but can be amazingly rewarding. I love extremely ambiguous and complex problems…so Audiophilia is perfect.

@mahgister 

👍 yes I believe we do.

You bring up a really good concept… about the unconscious brain. That is what we are supplying music to… the unconscious is the appreciator and it uses our conscious brain to do the analysis and work to allow us to enjoy the outcome of our pursuit of the high end. 

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When my wife's head hits the ceiling....that's my limit. ☹

I am not "poor" even in retirement...

But my wife control the supply money all my life because i dont have time or interest for money management and my only expanses were for books  and music...

When the day come to buy a 15,000 bucks dreamed system, she does not say no, but she does not say yes too...

i decided to go with an under 1000 bucks system vintage... I learned basic acoustic to fulffil my dreams , thanks to her management money skills, without her i would had as most people learn nothing and buy everything...

Now with my headphone system i even beat my speakers/acoustic room... Just in the bass department i go under 30 hertz... I am more than happy with my 600 bucks system...

For sure i dream about the ultimate upgrade  at 15,000 bucks who will give me not a system beating most audiophile average system but would be for the ratio S.Q./low price ( 15,000 bucks) one of the best in the world...because i know what i am doing now .... Thanks to my thrifty  wife...

 My very best to you...

When my wife's head hits the ceiling....that's my limit. ☹

@mahgister 

But my wife control the supply money all my life because i dont have time or interest for money management and my only expanses were for books  and music...

That's my situation too. As long as I can afford to buy what I want I have very little interest in money. From what I've seen in others, the chasing of wealth often seems to be a rather pernicious addiction that ultimately defeats it's original purpose.

In any case my wife will never stop me from buying something if I want it bad enough but she will ask to think about family priorities first.

And I do.

However, as time goes by and I see how fragile one's grip on life can be, I also recognise the folly of putting off one's wishes indefinitely.

I had been a fool all my life in audio matter ... But i learned that to be more than a passive consumers is the road to freedom and knowledge by acoustic basic  EXPERIMENTS and experimenting with  creative simple devices ( i never bought tweaks) ... This experiments i created for me  dont make me the one and only wise dude here...

My experiences too.

We're not the only only ones of course. Folks like YouTube reviewer Andrew Robinson have openly admitted that after owning loudspeakers that cost well in excess of $20k (Revel, B&W etc) he has managed to find the same level of quality at much lower prices, and with far less disturbance to his mental health.

It's no surprise therefore that he considers himself a recovering audiophile.

I work for the Pentagon! $10,000,000,000.00

Hey it's not my money anyway!

Interesting indeed...

We're not the only only ones of course. Folks like YouTube reviewer Andrew Robinson have openly admitted that after owning loudspeakers that cost well in excess of $20k (Revel, B&W etc) he has managed to find the same level of quality at much lower prices, and with far less disturbance to his mental health.

It's no surprise therefore that he considers himself a recovering audiophile.

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If I really want something and I do t have the money for it u will save for it until I have enough to buy it. But yea there is always a limit. I mean I’m not gonna spend 100k on an amp or a pair of speakers that I don’t have the money for. But if I did have the money for what I wanted there is no limit to what I would buy. So to answer the question. It’s yes and no 😂

That was almost literate.

I discovered that sound quality nowadays, in a mature audio industry, that sound quality minimal satisfying threshold had no direct relation to money cost at all..

We must LEARN how to pair the right components thats all...

my system is so good that my wife want divorce because i repeat each day that my music is so good that i dont believe it...

Upgrade is ALWAYS possible even passed the minimal satisfaction threshold where i am...

the cost of upgrading my 700 bucks system will be around 15,000 bucks... I am so well informed trust me i know that it will be a REAL upgrade...

but i am so pleased with what i have that i think about the upgrade as foolishness even if it will be really better this i am totally certain ...

What i have now is two piece of gear considered top high end of their era in 1978... one piece is not even upgradable , the headphone... it rival a Stax Omega headphone... 😊

Even with a billion dollars i will need nothing more than near 15,000 bucks... It is because i know exactly what i need and why...

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Thou shalt not buy speakers higher than thy ceiling

I asked a similar question on a thread I started in the speaker section, except it was if there was a price where a manufacturer could over price his audio wares.
Seems like the general consensus was…no.

Certainly by the supposed success of the release of the new Linn LP12 50th Anniversary issue, which at $60k is apparently selling well!