Your math may be fine but your logic needs work.
IMO, the bottom line is that price usually has less to do with performance than most are willing to admit.
Of course a higher price should more easily afford a designer to add quality, aesthetics, or compensate for potential shortcomings in a given execution.
Bottom line is a product's sonic performance has everything to with the design and the execution thereof. Not the price.
Case in point, I am intimately familiar with a product that retails for $14,000. It's performance is a good 20% or better over a product retailing for $3000.
However, neither comes close performance-wise to a third product that retails for $400.
That is except for a fourth product that retails for $3150, whose performance is simply in a whole nuther league than the first 3 products.
Go figure.
For the buyer, ultimately it's knowing what works and doesn't work for your system respective to your budget but otherwise regardless of cost.
On the other hand, I see nothing wrong with somebody spending $100k on a given product. In fact I think it would be lots of fun and if I had that kind of buying power, I wouldn't hesitate to do likewise. Assuming of course the product accomplished it's intended purpose.
But I'd also feel rather silly to think just because my product costs $100k, it's better than anything that costs less.
-IMO
IMO, the bottom line is that price usually has less to do with performance than most are willing to admit.
Of course a higher price should more easily afford a designer to add quality, aesthetics, or compensate for potential shortcomings in a given execution.
Bottom line is a product's sonic performance has everything to with the design and the execution thereof. Not the price.
Case in point, I am intimately familiar with a product that retails for $14,000. It's performance is a good 20% or better over a product retailing for $3000.
However, neither comes close performance-wise to a third product that retails for $400.
That is except for a fourth product that retails for $3150, whose performance is simply in a whole nuther league than the first 3 products.
Go figure.
For the buyer, ultimately it's knowing what works and doesn't work for your system respective to your budget but otherwise regardless of cost.
On the other hand, I see nothing wrong with somebody spending $100k on a given product. In fact I think it would be lots of fun and if I had that kind of buying power, I wouldn't hesitate to do likewise. Assuming of course the product accomplished it's intended purpose.
But I'd also feel rather silly to think just because my product costs $100k, it's better than anything that costs less.
-IMO