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Law of Diminishing Returns; where does it kick in?


I think that most of us who have been in this hobby for a while have experienced the "law of diminishing returns", the point at which spending a lot more money produces a little bit better sound or just tradeoffs.

I would like your opinions on where you believe this occurs in Speakers, Amps, CD players, and cabling.
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I have not heard them, but I guess from all the comments on Agon, the Nordost Valhalla throws cables out as a choice for now.

All components have this. The one component I am least likely to spend a lot of money on is the digital front end. I have a heavily modified Link DAC by Stan Warren with his modded Aiwa CD Changer. I bought it used/mint from a friend of Stan's in Oregon for $500 shipped. I figure I would have to spend a lot of money to do better; and how much better? I assume my dollars would be better spent elsewhere.

Going the other direction I can probably go the furthest in improvement without diminishing returns with the speakers; the amp second.

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