Price No Object Amps

I'm still saving for Sanders monos' !  those will smoke any amp regardless of price.

This statement is clearly false like many generalizations, especially in audio.

@gdhal 

And it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s one of yours :)

You're right, but it was the S-30, which costs about 2 orders of magnitude less.

Even if gold wire is used, I don't see how a product doing what some of the amps on this list do could cost that much. But there is something called the Veblen Effect, which has to do with the idea that when something costs more, you are also getting a greater value. Which means that they could be priced high to invoke a sense of greater value. Quite often though the 2nd hand market sorts those sorts of things out.

I can think of a few amps costing a lot less that actually sound better; in two cases having heard them side by side (although that was a few years ago).

say'n