Dylan: "It's such a shame that it wasn't possible to get it down to this price a year ago. "

Problem is, with the current product's manufacturing volumes and configuration, I believe that they are losing money on each one sold at this point. It's just that the $699 I just paid is way more than they'll get from a liquidator.

When somebody like Panasonic or Pioneer manufactures quantity 20,000 of an Empeg-based unit with dumbed-down features and simpler manufacturing, maybe they can make money at $700 each.

Jim