Perceived value is can be emotional or monetary. Audiophiles are a diverse group. Price sensitivity has different ceilings for each of us. Most of us won't blink at spending $ 50 for a immediately perceived improvement and at that price would care less about what the cost of the parts are as we are well below the monetary ceiling and in the emotional valuation. We like it, we want it, lets buy it and we feel good about the buy.
Spending $ 1000 or $ 5000 or $25000 most of us bump into the monetary ceiling and have to balance that with the emotional. It gets harder and harder to justify the improvement. Cost accounting the parts is one way to convince us it is a bad buy even though we want it.
We like it, its not a good value, lets not buy it and we feel good about the decision........
Spending $ 1000 or $ 5000 or $25000 most of us bump into the monetary ceiling and have to balance that with the emotional. It gets harder and harder to justify the improvement. Cost accounting the parts is one way to convince us it is a bad buy even though we want it.
We like it, its not a good value, lets not buy it and we feel good about the decision........