I don't think the new wilson speakers are hot any more,, you can see a new hand is involved at designing these speakers though, because they have really improved a lot recently.
We have all heard expensive systems that sounded crappy, so you have to wonder if money has that much to do with it...of course you need to spend some to get results, but sometimes, alot of times, spending buckets of money doesn't really yield such tremendous gains. Just bragging rights and I think there is a whole aspect of that incorporated into audiophilia.
I listen to Gregs GT Audio speakers and shake my head, they are just so much better than most stuff out there for relatively little money.
And yes there are lots of mountains that still need climbing.....
looking forward to seeing everyone again