Were you planning on having people pre-pay?

Even at $300 cost the lot would run you $300000 which is more spare change then I have in the couch

It's an interesting thought. Were you thinking of attempting to lisence rights to make an empeg replica or redesigning from the ground up?

I suspect you would have some difficulty getting redistribution rights as sonicblue was using the IP it created making the empeg in future products.