on DSP analysis of the room to control the dispersion pattern of its drivers. It, by the way, costs way more than $30k.
The bottom line is performance as compared to peers
Exactly! Let’s be open minded here..
Some say that up to 50% of what you hear at sweet spot is the room.
If that is true.
Or if it is only 30%.. I guess it is dependent on if it is near field or more further away from the speakers to your sweet spot as a factor.
Let say if it is only 30% is from the room. Like reflections bass peak/nulls and so on..
When DSP correct most of the room interaction (talking from experience and doing it right now) . Not only can you correct the room You can adopt curves that compensate our hearing sensitivity that is different and varying over the whole frequency range (research since 1933 and incorporated in ISO 226:2003. But the cool thing you can tailor made it for your own personal preferences!)
(Of course you should fix the room in the physical domain first but that is far from the goal.)
Then you all understand that when it is the biggest component physical and has one of the biggest influence in your whole system.
Then naturaly with that big advantage that few speakers has we would get best in class performance and easily outperform it peers:
The bottom line is performance as compared to peers