How much does your system retail for?

Geez, this thread has been around forever, and my post from 2002 of $23,000 is just about half of what it is today, $45,133 more or less.

Many of the same components from then are still in place, but some have been modified at a cost, substantially upgraded, or replaced altogether. Also, inflation has made all the still-available stuff a LOT more expensive, especially cables -- which is about all I own that IS still in production today! (plus my headphones and some accessories; speakers and tuner just recently discontinued)

Go to my virtual system page (about the only thing I keep up to date here, for my own records) and see how that $44,133 is divvied up.

This is *retail* price: the MSRP of the components today or when last available. Thanks to audiogon and keeping some older (and therefore less-expensive) units, my *actual* price paid over the years is substantially less.

I have been very fortunate to only have spent $7-8k and enjoy a system that simple and musical.

lol @ pee contest...I knew there had to be a few in here. Mine is bigger than yours and it streams farther. Too funny!

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About $12.5k right now and even that has been largely spread out over the last 23 years, so it hasn't hurt me too bad really. May add another $1-1.5k before all is said and done. The weird part is that the 2.0-channel rig of just the components themselves is only about $4.5k, but I've slowly been adding a slew of Alan Maher Designs noise reduction gear and wiring that has since grown to about $8k-dollar's worth on its own...didn't set out to do it that way, it's just that everything I've gotten from that guy has made a definite improvement, so I've been more than rewarded to keep going in that direction. To say I'm satisfied is an understatement - despite the fact that my 'tweak' budget is now roughly twice my component budget(!), Lol.