Whenever you need something for which just buying the popular version on amazon won’t work, seek out the enthusiast forum for whatever it is you’re trying to buy. They usually have a sticky that will flat out tell you what is considered a great cost/performance item by experts.
Disclaimer: you should not do this if you are the sort of person to fall down the rabbit hole of new enthusiasms.
Whenever you need something for which just buying the popular version on amazon won’t work, seek out the enthusiast forum for whatever it is you’re trying to buy. They usually have a sticky that will flat out tell you what is considered a great cost/performance item by experts.
Disclaimer: you should not do this if you are the sort of person to fall down the rabbit hole of new enthusiasms.
Alternatively if there isn’t a sticky the top scoring posts in the subreddit on the subject will probably give you good information.