I think he’s saying it’s humble in terms of where it places in the spectrum of Wilson Audio systems. They’re a fairly vintage Wilson product, a second hand pair of those Maxx’s runs about $13k, he may have even got them closer to 10k considering one of the woofers was damaged. Those are the series 2 I linked as well, I think OP has the originals which came out in 1998, so they could be up to 25 years old. That’s a lot cheaper than what even their smallest speakers cost these days if you were to buy them in store. I mean just to put that in perspective, their little bookshelf speakers the TuneTot’s cost $10,000 new.

So yes, while obviously the system itself is in no way whatsoever humble, if you’re comparing it to where it places on the spectrum of Wilson speakers which go up to like $700k then you might consider it to be on the entry level side of things on that particular tier of audio equipment. It’s like someone posting on a supercar forum and calling their McLaren 540C “humble” because it only costs $185k and other users are showing off their $2 million dollar P1’s or their $20 million dollar F1s. The 540C is not a humble car but it’s a humble Mclaren.

Way too many people have amazing speakers yet won’t spend $80 on a measurement mic so they can see what they’re actually getting out of them in their room at the listening position. $80 is on the verge of being free when you consider how expensive this hobby is. Get one and see what responses you get with your speakers in different positions with different toe ins. With some physical placement/toe in adjustments based on what gives the best response and basic EQ adjustments to balance each channel independently from the best physical starting point you can give yourself what sounds like a $$$$ upgrade to your system in less than an hour of playing around

Buying a $133k turntable is just a flex for someone with millions worth of disposable income, the sort of person who probably made more than $133k on their investments in the time it took to go purchase it. I mean if you have that sort of money then why not, I’m sure most of us here would buy stupid shit like that just for the fun of it if we hit an infinite money glitch.

I like it when I see plants without them sitting on top of the actual speakers like funny little green hats and without a giant leaf dangling right in front of the tweeter like so many people choose to do for some reason.