This sounds like the high end dilemma. Once you reach a certain level of performance you pay a lot more for a small improvement.
I haven't seen the xbr7 but I have seen the xbr8 and it is the best looking set I have seen in person. That said it was 3~4x the price of the set I have. However, on initial inspection it was visually apparent that the xbr8 was better in every way.
Just like in audio $4000 speakers don't sound 4x as good as $1000 ones.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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This sounds like the high end dilemma. Once you reach a certain level of performance you pay a lot more for a small improvement.
I haven't seen the xbr7 but I have seen the xbr8 and it is the best looking set I have seen in person. That said it was 3~4x the price of the set I have. However, on initial inspection it was visually apparent that the xbr8 was better in every way.
Just like in audio $4000 speakers don't sound 4x as good as $1000 ones.