Like me, some of you may have seen the story of Ken Fritz, who spent nearly a lifetime building what he believed was the world's greatest audio system (I wouldn't doubt it!). I just found this updated (as a a year ago) video documenting the system—and a heartbreaking conclusion. It's worth a couple of minutes of your time, I believe:
There have been a number of threads on this in the past. Here is one One Man's Dream- Ken Fritz, The World's Finest Stereo System