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The odd thing is that when you get a little more money and you start spending the 50 dollars on the nice boots, you learn that there's an assumption about quality built into the price. Sometimes the 50 dollar boots are 20 dollar boots with a fancy brand name. Or they used to be high quality, but the brand got bought out by venture capital and manufacturing moved to another country and the quality of the materials used in the process changed.
Yep, and in the same way the inverse can 'sometimes' be true too.
A "nice" $80 headset will outlive the cheap $20 one. And in a lot of cases it'll also outlive that cutting edge $500 one that has features you dont need.
So do your research, the inconvenience means it's probably more worth it to figure out WHY a product is good and then shop for the things you learned instead of just letting amazons top 10 recommended headsets guide you.
Being more informed about the things you spend your life-spent-turned-to-cash dollars on is always a good idea. Helps prevent buying slop too.
But the $500 headset was endorsed by that famous person with that hit song from 20 years ago, so surely it's been vetted for the highest quality manufacturing standards!