How much does your system retail for?

$ 230,000.....don't tell my wife.....especially you, 'snook2'..

My most expensive system cost $3,000, with the speakers accounting for half of that.

$135,000 , not done yet.

Retail: estimating $9,000
What I paid: $3,500

What is hard for me is that it's totally addicting and I just want to keep upgrading. Shoot, I usually buy something already knowing what the next upgrade will be. Since I started this craziness 8 months ago, I'm on my third amp, fifth pair of speakers, second c.d. player, fourth pair of speaker wires, third pair of interconnects in addition to a dac, and a pre amp.

I used to say video games are digital crack. I take that back now and would say video games are like digital weed and stereo equipment is more akin to digital crack. I'm looking in to an inpatient rehab, just I upgrade a few more things.

Two channel system for around $40k. This does not count music. I have somewhere around 4k to 5k albums and 3k or so CDs. Some of the albums are over 40 years old So a lot of us remember what they used to cost back in the day.
But you know what? It's worth every penny!