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    Posted: 28 Feb 2022 at 8:32pm
Having tried and subsequently built up a Slee based system, I considered the investment quite substantial but very good value for the quality of product and the resulting sound  quality.  I'm fully aware that vastly more can be spent on equipment to get that ever diminishing improvement but with well aged ears and hearing that I know tapers off above 13kHz I've always thought 'what is really the point'. Then I see one of the rags (HFN) publishes a review of a preamp costing the neck end of £140k with matching mono block power amps that measure output in kW! I really don't know whether to laugh or puke. Who on earth needs or can possibly hear the benefit of such obscene pricing? I appreciate that may be plenty of folk who can  afford such expense on a whim (oliagarchs?) but really is it worth the expenditure or purely status?
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Indeed. Jaw-dropping high prices.
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A gold-plated turd will always be a turd.
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I once saw a CD player costing over £30000 must of been the best part of 30 years ago all I can remember of it was it was made by a French company
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Yes, I guess you need diversity for 4kW off a 3kW outlet, and for the other channel? And is it really going to make the St. Georges neighbours happy? Perhaps they're for Black Sea yachts? Don't often see loop distortion mentioned apart from the 1965 Dinsdale, or my '70s topic. Seems the voltage stage is in Cordell's amp book ref. an AES paper. Good to invest in property, but £3m of arty metalwork? (and that worried look)



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Here's two more
Pivetta Opera "amp" cost $2.2m 120000 watt weighs 1.5 tonnes or a bit more affordable Pivetta Opera One $650000 power 14400 watt. when I read the power of these two I had to read it again. I found these when trying to find out what that CD player I mentioned costing £30000 was called and no I didn't find it


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Ok for a bit of Stadium Rock, if you live a couple of miles away, or perhaps they're for earthquake simulation.LOL
Never seen any HiFi loudspeakers that would cope with that power.
Just listen, if it sounds good to you, enjoy it.
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