High End Audio Growth

[ggdudeabides]

Clearly, one mans garbage is another's gold. So am I a bad person for using a $10K Integrated for background noise and using it for critical listening when the fancy strikes me. my friend's consensus is no and that my system meets their criteria.

No, you are not a bad person and the 10k piece meets your criteria for hi end. Your first sentence says it all. That was my point. I think you may have misinterpreted my post. Best.