deep_333,
I heard from a friend of mine that he gets a lot of the stuff for free on consignment to showcase it from dealers so when he says that he's paying for all of it I highly doubt he is and my friend confirm that, he told me that he strong arms A lot of dealers to get this real expensive stuff that nobody can afford unless they're a millionaire, and I've heard the Rockport Lyra's in person and I wasn't that impressed for $200,000 speaker you would think it would have a more three-dimensional sound stage and more enveloping sounds stages as well, like they say the law of diminishing returns you don't need to spend that much to get an excellent speaker, the monitor audio platinum 500 ll was $35,000 and they would absolutely destroy the Rockport Lyra.