The principle of diminishing return is located in audio between the subjective evaluation of sound as an acoustic experience and the objective value of gear design...The P.D.R. is not about money but about the ratio involved between pure acoustics science and engineering science...It is inevitable principle as inevitable is trade-off principles...
It is not then something which concern merely the budget of the poor as someone suggested and is supposed to be of no concern for the goal of audiophile.....
Why is it not clear for all then ?
Why so much "audiophile" thought about it as a vulgar money question in no way related to audiophile working methodology ?
Because people understand audio through the gear pricing not so much through acoustics experience and controls and psycho-acoustics parameters and controls...
Saying that the sky is the limit nevermind the money if we are audiophiles is preposterous claim sorry...
This motto, the sky is the limit, nevermind money, comes from marketing conditioning not from audio and acoustics wisdom and experience...