Its ultimately a preference thing in the end
Yes, and a budget or priority thing . . .
I'll take one of my favourite hilts as an example . . . The Sentinel v4
As a Stunt saber you could choose completely basic, single cree LED in GC for example, standard AAA, heavy grade 36" blade, no windows etc for $79.99 . . . an AWESOME bright LED saber for hours of duelling fun, rock solid hilt & blade construction . . . (even cheaper at $69.99 with a mid grade blade
)
The same Stunt could have a SRD LED, and the choice of Li-Ion with BuckPuck for full battery life colour consistency, and a recharge port with 1.2A charger so you can leave it displayed LIT UP on your mantle piece ALL day long
. . . for $204.99 . . . same rock solid hilt & blade construction, still no sound . . .
Lets say you have a more "open" budget, and just want all the bells and whistles . . . Emerald + Obsidian v4 + recharge port etc (still the same hilt & blade), maybe add a spiffy illuminated av switch . . . all yours for only $474.99
Ok . . . well thats going over the top, lol . . . lets pull it back and ditch the Emerald . . . but go Tri-CG, Obsidian v4 etc (same as above but not Emerald) . . . that brings it back to a more reasonable $349.99 . . . great . . . then you run that by the Boss (lol, your wife or your mum, you know the drill
), and they say, WTF, you want to spend WHAT on a TOY ! ! !
Ok, lets get rid of the recharge port . . . we're at $264.99 . . . still with the v4 and fancy av switch
. . . but thats still pushing the budget for some
So we come back to Obsidian LITE . . . We get the exact same rock solid hilt & blade construction, choose the single cree CG again (still very bright, and more recommended to go with a single cree over a tri-cree for the LITE setup anyway), and this time stay with the standard switch, and we're back to $179.99 ($10 cheaper for mid grade blade) . . . that's $25 cheaper than the stunt with a recharge port
. . . more affordable, and an AWESOME option WITH SOUND for those pushing their budget to even that level . . .
. . . and much more "Boss" friendly
For the record (#1) . . . the same hilt with Obsidian v3 sound, Li-Ion & Resistor, standard switch etc. would be $214.99 ($35 more that the LITE as above) . . . "Its ultimately a preference thing in the end"
. . . and . . . you might want to wrap some electrical tape around that LITE battery pack in heavy deulling
For the record (#2) . . . I'm a "saber addict", and an av switch "snob", lol, but these days I'd mostly order sabers with NO sound because I add the av switches and other mods myself . . . and at the same time . . . my very last order (Archon v3.1 a couple weeks ago, still waiting for shipping with everyone else
) is spec'd with Obsidian LITE (although, the LITE board is going to be used in another "project", lol) . . . cheers