High end audio has become more about buying a status symbol than sound quality.
That being said, if someone wants to drop megabucks on the latest greatest either because they think it sounds better or for a status symbol, it's their right to do so. It's even their right to spend whatever they want on snake oil and convince themselves it sounds better than something that's simply well designed.
But also consider, a speaker doesn't have a fixed frequency response unless you listen in an anechoic chamber. Put a great speaker in a bad room and what do you get? Put a competent speaker in a great room and it can outperform the great speaker in a bad room.
That being said, if someone wants to drop megabucks on the latest greatest either because they think it sounds better or for a status symbol, it's their right to do so. It's even their right to spend whatever they want on snake oil and convince themselves it sounds better than something that's simply well designed.
But also consider, a speaker doesn't have a fixed frequency response unless you listen in an anechoic chamber. Put a great speaker in a bad room and what do you get? Put a competent speaker in a great room and it can outperform the great speaker in a bad room.