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PS audio new 25K dac and the psychological effect of owning a company's best.

I was purchasing some hi-res files from NativeDSD today and found mention of PS Audio’s Obsidian Ted Smith Signature Dac ($25K) in their compatibility excel table scheduled to be released in 2021. I am the owner of their Direct stream DAC and DSD memory player and I immediately thought that I would never spend 25K on a DAC. I also thought that now I can have their best so why to stay with the brand. This might be my personal bias but I was wondering if this has an effect on anyone else. Is owning the top-of-line of any brand important to you and would you leave a brand if you were priced out of the market?
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Not in a million year , I owned their top dac and opened the unit up 
cut my finger on the cheap thin sheet metal and inside half empty 
what a joke ,I bought the night and day better built as well as sounding Bricasti M3 dac , with $1k streamer card $6500 retail and made in MA,USA all fully CNC machined Aluminum classic dual classic laser trimmed AD 1955 Multibit dacs , great Direct to Ethernet very quiet and just add a Uptone  audio Ether regen 
right before the Ethernet input and it sounds excellent, stream Roon and  QObuz , a fantastic honest ,naturally sounding dac over 90% of good as their $10 k M1 dac 👍.
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