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Soundwave said:

And a $10,000 home theater will sound better than a $1000 sound bar ... if you put them side by side. It will actually a bigger difference than GPU classes. The thing is most people still are not spending that kind of money on a home theater.

Low/Medium/High settings on most PC games are quite similar. Ultra settings is irrelevant because most people don't have a gaming rig or care enough to spend that much. A PS5 or XBox Series X is not running Ultra settings on basically anything either.

"I have a 4090 card to show side by side with every game!" is not a normal use case for 99% of people. Most people don't give a shit about that lol. 

You are finally right on something.  A nice home theater crushes a cheap soundbar.

And no, low and high are not similar.  Anisotropic, texture quality, volumetric, particles, shadows, lighting and reflections are much stronger on higher settings.  Add in more fps at a higher resolution....  night and day.  Sadly I think you know this but simply don't want to admit it.  

Most people don't care, which is a goalpost move.  The question isn't if people care.  The question was, is there an immediate and large difference, which is "yes."  

Personally I don't blame people for not caring.  High end electronics isn't cost effective.  I don't have a high end car, but I'm not going to pout and claim a Ford focus and high BMW are the same because stupid reasons.