[Halcyon]

That's the thing.
If you are going to have a half million pound Hifi system, you need a room to use it in. If you used it in a loft conversion with sloping walls or a tiny room, you'd have awful acoustics with sounds bouncing all over the place.
You end up paying tonnes. You buy a great amp, you need to buy a great Cd player, you need to buy a great set of speakers, and then you need to buy quality interconnects too.