These comparisons are difficult if it’s just about pricing. We also get into the technological weeds re innovation included (or not) in the given item.
After a certain point, the ganish on the given meal becomes pricey, or that components and build costs become big players in the overall costs involved.
If the builders/designers decide that the item deserves a higher cost due to innovation and there are differences in those innovations as compared to the so called norm. Bleeding edge has it’s costs. Then the issue of blowhard versions of said attempts and whether the buyer can discern that, or not.
Innovations can be difficult to weigh in context or out of it. Science might be the arbiter but that depends upon all aspects being defined. The calculators/weighers/innovators/'those who apply' said science have to be as psychologically well balanced as much as the given recipients (end users) do. The problem being that science is not complete and likely never will be, the innovation is presumably new and..science is fallible because it made out of people, just like Soylent Green.
In the end, the price is the price and a person has to individually try the item out and decide whether it is worth the price. Porsche vs Lambos kinda comparisons.
Sometimes innovation can make for a better sound quality and is less expensive, and that’s how Class D entered the chat, at least in some people’s perceptions.
Those dang individuals and their opinions and projections. And the thread will go where it goes...