>>105963495
it's about time that you realize that price does not rely on performance, or rnd expenditures, or manufacturing costs, or any of the marketing fluff you've been fed
it's plain and simple, companies decide what the price of a product will be based on demand.
i don't think you'll be convinced, because based on my 3 decades of being in this shitty audio hobby, this question pops up every other day, so i'll leave you with post that describes what i just said with much more elegance
https://www.reddit.com/r/oratory1990/comments/gbdi7v/comment/g9qselk/