Not exactly a fair comparison, the 3090 can pay for itself after a few months.
There’s always a premium for TOTL. TOTL isn’t for everyone. I can’t justify the thousand dollar 80-inch with ultra new tech TVs.
True lol. It's not apples to apples, but when you compare performance and specs, you're paying a
massive premium for the 3090 over the 3080 or a 6900XT. And people fall for it (as in people who won't even get near pushing the card's VRAM as it was designed to be for 3D professionals). Not only that, it's also the least efficient card of the whole lot...
Still, at the end of the day, frames are frames for most people. One card nets you 89fps and another 97fps. The whole idea is higher graphical fidelity @ higher frames per second. It's more black and white with computer hardware.
E.g., 3080 -> 3090; 100% price increase for ~10% performance gains @ 10% more power consumption. Whether that's worth it is up to your justification.
Headphones/audio is a bit of a different beast as you know. Someone may simply prefer cheaper headphones to their ears.
Even justifying LCD-X ($1500) vs LCD-5 ($4500) requires a bit more subjective experience to make an informed decision as to whether it's worth it to you. We can't objectively measure every aspect of a transducer's psychoacoustic performance.
With other hardware, (TV's, computing, etc), it's much more obvious what you're paying for and how much of a premium you're paying. That's why I think it's easier for some audiophile companies to get away with ridiculous pricing for sometimes ridiculous products.
Nvidia marketing knows that there are many people addicted to buying the latest and greatest tech products even if it's not a wise buying decision. But at least you can point to objective data and understand what the premium actually is... hard to do that when comparing LCD-5 to Susvara for example.
Sorry, /rant
I've been hitting refresh on your site every ten minutes or so for DAYS...
