What proportion of your total money was spent on each component type

[OzzieAudiophile]

Hi all. This poll will get your thinking caps on, if not your calculators.

Work out what you paid for each component (not what it's worth, not what it's worth today).

If you paid $4000 for a component 5 years ago, use that.

You will need to work out how much you paid for each component, then work out a grand total.

This is purely for the 2-channel exercise. I'm not interested what you paid for your viewing screens, LCDs, plasmas, projectors, sub woofer, centre channel. When I am referring to speakers, that means only your fronts (1 pair). You may count your PC as 1 source.

Phono, cd player, dvd player, blu-ray player, dvr, pvr, all as "source".

If you have more than one of the above, add all those up as the source final amount of money you spent against the total spent on your entire system.

Don't forget every cable pair you are using to hook up each of your 2 channel equipment.

I was always taught that 10% of the total cost go to your cables, 30% to speakers, 30% to sources, 30% to amplification.

There are not enough options, which means I have to leave out power surge protection, and power regulation More or less it does help define the overall sound quality at the end of the day, but I'm limited to 10 options.

I'll start the ball rolling, hopefully this won't be too painful for you to try, but if helpful, it will give you a good indication where your strongest components lie, and what you can safely say you got good bang for your buck.

I know there's a good chance your proportions may not be any of the 10. Try to use the closest "highest" percentage, option, if the rest are out by 5 or 10%, it doesn't matter so much.

I'm trying to find anyone who's hit the really high proportions on certain types of components. Now I recently purchased a Xindak power amp, which is basically my most expensive component. I now must use my Yamaha receiver as the pre-amp, but I must count BOTH in the amp section. If I upgrade to a better pre amp, then I'm sure to skew my proportions even further. Logically, I will upgrade my CD player next.

Have fun voting