Ah such decisions.
I set myself down with a budget as well, then i also came up with a figure which was a number i could absolutely not go beyond.
I ended up buying my system slightly over my budget number but under my absolute limit.
In order to rationalize my decision on going over my bugeted value, i said to myself,
"Hey, i'm going to pay three grand today but i'm going to have this system for the next 15 or 20 years as well. That's a good investment."
That's not to say i won't be buying other newer/better equipment in the future to build a second system for another room in the house though....
My father used to manage a radio shack back in the early 80s and he still has his Realistic Mach 1 and Minimus 7 speakers with a 60 lb receiver (the model escapes me). Now i've got a stereophile friend that wants to buy his Mach 1s for their drivers. Its all an investment.
