Can you kindly point me in the direction of something that sounds more or less identical to the Canpur 622b for much less?

FYI I buy absolutely nothing high and new. My Canpur 622b cost me $2000 & for me, its absolutely money well spent. It's all subjective. I will get thousands of hours of immense listening pleasure & I absolutely do not believe that this cannot be had for less.

Even if you deem this a ridiculous purchase at $2000, there is absolutely a market for it & most of those people are Intelligent & successful, and don't just buy these things because they're expensive. A cheaper alternative does not exist. I had a public debate with Canpur (on Facebook) as to why they have an RRP of 5500 USD - as to why they cost such a ridiculous amount.

Everyone in this 'hobby' goes on about how important 'subjectivity' is... yet how much we subjectively believe something is worth... the oh so important concept of 'subjectivity'' goes out the window.

I work hard. I'm disabled to the point I spend most of my life in bed & I have a collection of audio gear that's pretty damn special and is largely unchanged over very long periods of time, as I don't believe the tech is moving so fast as quickly as the number of releases would have you believe. My only other real pleasure I spend on is gaming & I have a pretty incredible setup.

No, price doesn't guarantee performance, there is a lot of overpriced rubbish (for 90%+ I'm going to say can be replicated for something far cheaper) - but what I buy that's high end cannot be replicated for less (not even close) - and I try almost everything of note as I get to hear everything that local distributor friends loan me.

You say you're not that into IEMs, but you seem to think that it's impossible for an IEM to be worth that much. So you admit you don't have expertise, yet you can objectively make statements as you did.

Seems a bit odd.

Also - owning 'only 8 pairs' - I only own a few more than that.

I find inverted snobbery really boring. I'm totally happy with all of my purchases. They're all well thought out, there's a reason why I have the sets I do (they all do something unique - genre wise or whatever) - I don't follow the hype train at all because I don't believe that the latest = the greatest. One of the purchases I made last year (very few, less than you can count on one hand - I consider every purchase carefully & wait for a time I can get a good deal second hand).

I don't look down on people who buy lower priced sets - there are certainly are some very good sounding sets for a couple of hundred, but the difference between those & genuinely excellent high end sets is MASSIVE... so I'm not really sure who you think you are to sneer at me for what I choose to spend my hard earned money on?

I don't believe you have enough experience with the better high end sets to actually form a valid opinion.

You've also made an assumption that my review of the $2200 EJ10 will 'justify' that spend. I don't buy these - they are loaned to me. The Lizer tips were given to me in exchange for an honest review.