Is expensive equipment worth? Everywhere you turn you have the cheap stuff and the expensive stuff, wether it be screw drivers, golf clubs or pool cues…
But is a $1040 Viking G-85 really that much better than $250 Dufferin D-50 - or do you have to be Efren Reyes to notice the difference? I know that I wouldn’t… how about you?
One thing that I do know about pool sticks is that the two-piece ones generally is better than the budget single-piece ones, I’m not a good pool player - i don’t have the patience, but I went to high school 
The sticks that the school had bought, you know the as-many-you-can-get-for-as-little-as-possible theorem most institutions use… it didn’t take long for them to get crooked–luckily I had a friend that borrowed me hes cue. Man, between the skewed onces and he’s two-piece… it was like night and day.
Sadly we don’t have a single (public) pool table in this town, I know I’d like to play more… even though I don’t have the patience to get good at it.
Depends on the area you’re talking about, but in music expensive equipment is always worth it.