I think it's a fact about our hobby that there is an entry level price that is paid to get a basic decent setup for recording and getting decent sound. Whether that sound is acceptable to you can only be determined by you and you alone. Incrementally, the amount spent for better sound is definitely NOT a linear relationship. IOW, if you pay two times the price, you cannot and generally will not get two times the improvement in sound even if that COULD be measured, which of course it can't. Whether one person can justify the incremental costs it takes to get that sound improvement is, again a personal choice. Many people will spare no expense to get the best sound they possibly can, but when that source is held up against an A/B'ed source made with Church Audio gear, the CA gear is definitely gonna hold its own. That's not to say that the person that spent the extra money isn't getting his money's worth though because he's getting what he paid for. The bottom line though is that, in this hobby, spending thousands more doesn't guarantee order's of magnitude in sound improvement.