save money
buy old vintage. mid-70's > 80s.
holy shit ~
Recovering high-ender here too...
You can take it all the way back to the late 60s as well - I have a pair of Sylvania - yeah thats right Sylvania - floor speakers that are the most lush thing you've ever heard.
Powering those with a vintage Kenwood KA-6150 Integrated pre/power amp.
You need to scrutinize those old giant console rigs too - they can have some great stuff in them.
I pulled a nice Stormberg Carlson tube amp from one - dreamy for year, but I finally blew that one.
There's also some low powered Fisher gear thats is excellent.