If Money Were No Object... A Fantasy Question


Let's say you're filthy stinking rich and had $1,000,000+ to spend on an audio system. What would you do, assemble a single SOTA system or for the same amount of money put together multiple very high quality (and certainly not cheap) non-SOTA systems.

This fantasy is in the either/or format. Points will be deducted for thoses who answer "both".
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I'd definitiely go with at least two rooms/systems. I think one of the reasons I buy and sell a lot of equipment is because of my varied musical tastes. I've found that there is no one single component that plays ALL music the best. They all seem to sacrifice dynamics for smoothness, or vice versa, to some extent. I'd love to have a SET tube monoblocks driving my Avantgarde speakers for my relaxing, smooth mostly vocal arrangements.
Feel like rocking? Go down the hall to the room with the big ass SS monoblocks driving large dynamic speakers.
Ahhhhh....what a life that would be....
Forget hunting for tickets of your favorite artists, for the money I would "hire" the artists to play for me personally at my place, with a different special someone with me of course to impress ;>)

Regards,
When money is of no consequence and you want the best, the answer is obvious. If it isn't obvious, just ask Dr Amar Bose what he would buy : ) Sean
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Well, since I still get to run sound on a part time basis I would just buy a new rig & load it up with gear & go tour with somebody. I look at running sound like having a giant stereo to play with but I do take it seriously enough to do the best I can.

Since I'm so rich I'll buy a brand new Western Star & a custom made Kentucky trailer then spend 1 mil on gear for touring. That should hold me for a while.
I would buy May 04 unlead gas calls. 1 contract runs about $1300 and you control 44000 gallons of unleaded gas. With $1,000,000 you could control about 770 contacts. So what can you make.

Unleaded gas always goes up in price in the summer so a 2 cent tick up in the price should yield 44000gals x 770 contracts x .02 tick up in price = $677600

A 5 cent (.05) tick up would net $2,778,160

So what do you do with your 2.75 million. Buy Aug/Sept heating oil calls. Heating oil prices peak in the summer not in the winter, unless there is some near term distoration involved.

If you can say Straddle, Butterfly or Stranghold you can make money. Forget about hawkin your used equipment on A/Gon for pennies on a dollar.

Disclaimer Past performance does not guarantee future success......... bet with your head not over it!!!

Hope this helped

Dave