What's your profession? Age?

I'm a resident of neurosurgery in my final year of training, age 38. I've been in this hobby since 1990. I don't know how much money I've dumped into a variety of systems over the years, but I'll estimate that my current set-up runs about $20K, $5k of which is just the cables (I'm planning for the future by having nice cables that won't need to be upgraded as I move to new amps, speakers, CD players, etc). Oh, and I buy almost everything used or demo (except my TV).

Senior Aeronautical engineer/Age 45, and an apparently rare woman on these forums . . . Doing first major system upgrade in many years--will probably have $20K in it pretty quick now.

Married to an electrical engineer who specializes in RF (I like to spin him up by reading cable ads. . ."SKIN EFFECT! Yeah, at 10 GHz, but not at 20 kHz!").

40, Concert Cellist/ Sound Engineer/ Classical Producer. I get to write gear purchases off of my taxes :)

Mike

38, Digital Switch Design Engineer for a Telecommunications Company

35, semiconductor yield specialist. Started this hobby at age of 20, it's been a long 15 years.