What bothers me the most about that price gap is that the supposedly independent reviewers have a hard time finding new superlative adjectives for gear which costs so much. While I have no doubt the quality is high, there is a lot of snake oil included. When reading these articles it is hard to read a single sentence without coming across a word which is very esoteric and soft in its meaning such that the supposed attribute cannot be proven but only described in flowery rhetoric. That is why many of the older mags are combining with others of their ilk so they can exalt over the same equipment.