What does 90% of the Absolute Best Sound Cost?

A. What does it cost, in terms of components, interconnects, and direct furnishings (e.g., racks, isolation pads, surface room treatments, etc.) to achieve 90% of the absolute best sound possible?

B. What % does $50,000 get you?

A) My system (below video) is the absolute best sound system because it recreates the original sound better than others and 2nd best is far far away. All other systems are just different sounds each other. My system consists world’s best sound components and there is no replacement (no $million component sounds better).

https://youtu.be/i5Rrg0CU-XM?si=rW6VJ--P71JQaeZr

My system costs about $30k.

Wavetouch Antero spkr: $9,500, modded Oppo 95: $5k, Modded Bakoon int amp (3ft IC cable attached): $10k, spkr cable 7ft pair: $2k, 2 power cables: $5,600.

B) For $50k, you can get a whole my system ($30k). For rest $20k, you can buy my world’s best Streamer ($5k), DAC ($5k), or a power conditioner ($5k) from me.

Alex / Wavetouch audio

Sorry, but this is kind of a dumb question.

There is no way to objectively and financially measure SQ.

While it is very true that a more expensive system is not necessarily better SQ than a less expensive one. A well thought out, professionally set up million dollar plus system sounds like a million bucks. To reach 90 or 95% of such a system for $150K is deluded and ignorant.

A well thought out, professionally set up million dollar plus system sounds like a million bucks. To reach 90 or 95% of such a system for $150K is deluded and ignorant.

It's not, though. Not if you bought the ten-year-old million-dollar system for $150K.

I saw a video where a coffee expert was blind tested to see if he could distinguish different levels of coffee. He did really well, and explained that somewhere around $30 / lb the actual quality of the coffee was completely topped out. After that It's just differences that aren't necessarily better, just distinctions he could pick out because he was so familiar with them. So he was able to tell the even higher priced coffees apart because he was familiar with their distinctive characters. That's the boutique effect. When you're talking about $1,000,00 worth of speakers and electronics,  I'd say that's 95% boutique sound if it's just a 2 channel stereo setup that isn't a stadium filling professional concert system. 

@mglik let me fix your comment for you:

I am having a hard time understanding how one can quantify sound quality and scale it against expense.  If anything, it seems a very individual thing.  Moreover, I disagree that cost to quality is an exponential relationship.  But to each his own.

Now, if that doesn't make sense to you, perhaps you should repeat kindergarten.

Kind regards-

The dumb, deluded ignorant OP

Best is individual. Some people desire anachronism while some want all the Silicon Valley names in their solid state gear. Others like sculpted, art pieces like antique clocks. There are big rooms soaking up power and small rooms running on flea watts. And their are mid price value investors like myself owning two different Ice Module amps with my other two amps a Panasonic SA-XR 50 and Peachtree Carina 300.