I worked in Hifi, the margins on these devices are crazy, sometimes a 20000 or 10000 euro device, we bought for half of that price and forced by the manufacturer to sell it for that price. Otherwise we had issues with them.
How crazy is that,
In that way it is only available for the rich, and that is the reason I lost respect for these kind of companies. I hated that I sometimes had people in the shop loving a device, knowning d*mn well that they easily could have affort it, if I wasn’t forced to charge the full price (yes okay I was allowed 10% sometimes)
So yes I have issues with companies charging this kind of crazy prices. I have more respect for companies like Burson, Schiit, ifi, topping, Chord, hifiman etc…