I've been wondering about this for as long as I've had an interest in Hi-Fi, but just how far do you have to go to get the perfect system?
With exotic systems costing as much as a small terraced house down to one box affairs for a few hundred, at what price point going up does an audible and quantifiable improvement start to become entirely subjective?
Basically, at what point does the law of diminishing returns really kick in and is it perhaps different for the various types of equipment, say £1000 for a DAC and £2000 for an amp?
With exotic systems costing as much as a small terraced house down to one box affairs for a few hundred, at what price point going up does an audible and quantifiable improvement start to become entirely subjective?
Basically, at what point does the law of diminishing returns really kick in and is it perhaps different for the various types of equipment, say £1000 for a DAC and £2000 for an amp?