The law of diminshing returns?

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...

Like most hobbies value is not the primary goal, it’s personal enjoyment we’re after within our budgets.

Enjoyment and also objective learning  about basics (acoustics being the most important ) ...

Now i learned basics and i enjoy music with a good sound  with no  squirrel upgrading wheel  obsession...Because it is a low cost system , it does not mean that it has no value for audiophile... Any system at any price can reach his optimal working level or not...

Thats audiophile goal: any system must reach his optimal working level  using audio basics knowledge... Price has nothing to do with audiophile learnings...

 It is more important to have a dedicated acoustically controlled room anyway than a 100,000 bucks system in the living room ...

We live an era where price does not means as much as in the past decades... Thanks to engineerring progress in audio...

Buy an Edgar Choueiri DSP system for example if your budget is higher than mine and call it job done...

Read Choueiri articles and see his video to understand why...

This is not marketing it is a plasma physicist with a job who do acoustics studies as a hobby...

@ghdprentice    +1  Acceptance of the facts that time/effort/knowledge and money will give one better results when assembling a HEA system. Many budget orientated Audiophiles lack knowledge due to the limited time and effort applied to this hobby, claiming "snake oil"(law of diminishing returns) as their mantra.

As written , @ghdprentice post doesn’t deny that there is an asymptote, but rather that some individuals are willing to spend limitless amounts of money to get every last drop of sonic benefit.

  Those people are entitled to do that and I am not being critical.  However many of us believe that the biggest improvement occurs when one gets out of budget gear and ascends into the low high end.  Past that improvement is audible but the value equation becomes less favorable.  Whether or not this matters to a given individual is a personal choice