Preference for speakers that are half the price. Has this ever happened to you?

I’ve had a pair of PMC MB2SE floor standing speakers for about 8 years - I used to have a pair of ML CLX - they are comparably priced - 40k or so. 
 

i recently bought a pair of Magnepan LRS + and I move them in and out of my listening room - they are very light and easy to move and I set them up for near field listening - I’ve switched back and forth a few times - but find myself enjoying the maggies more.  
 

this has been a real eye opener - unbelievable value with these - I used both sets  with BACCH4Mac cross talk DSP -  2k vs 40k on the speaker pricing difference and at least for now - I’m spending more time with the maggies 

I have a preference for speakers that are 1/300 the price. 

I preferred my Harbeth Compact 7s to the Super HL5 in my listening space.  Not quite half the price, but close.  I also prefer the sound of my P3ESR to the Super HL5 Plus.  I've never used those in my main system and compared them head to head, but I find the Compact 7s and P3ESR easier to listen to.  The "super tweeter" in the Super HL5 Plus is a bit much in my smallish listening space.

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It's all about synergy, sometimes a product just gets it right.

Between brands I often prefer less expensive equipment, over another company's more expensive products. 

In the same brand it has happened a few times. Up until Denafrips dropped the "15th" line, I always preferred their Pontus DAC over the 50% more expensive Venus.

For fairly sensitive speakers, I prefer my CODA S5.5 over the CODA 8 which was more expensive.....and almost as much as the 3 times more expensive CODA 16. However when needing power for hard to drive speakers, the CODA 16 is magical