And while too rich for most is one way to look at it, another is that $1K would not even buy you a proper monitor all that long ago, and that this is a very low volume production. I think the price point is actually quite impressive, I expected it to cost substantially more, especially given the BOM, there are some pretty impressive bits on there, and those connectors and PCB are also not exactly free.
I do not think wiphy runs on the xA4 because the FPGA is not powerful enough. So if you want to run this project, you'll need to shell out at least $720 for the xA9. I probably will.
My very limited knowledge of SDR’s from when I was researching a project is that for a lot of use cases, the cheap ones just don’t have the bandwidth or frequency range. I ended up getting a limesdr which was enough to serve my needs, but it was still around $400 for the usb version.
And while too rich for most is one way to look at it, another is that $1K would not even buy you a proper monitor all that long ago, and that this is a very low volume production. I think the price point is actually quite impressive, I expected it to cost substantially more, especially given the BOM, there are some pretty impressive bits on there, and those connectors and PCB are also not exactly free.