There were between 350 and 400 Mk1's. I think empeg has said they've sold over 1000 Mk2's.

As for your concern about the decline in hardware of the empeg, we have speculated that sonicblue might decide to produce a lower-end machine that doesn't do as much but retains alot of the same software features, because that would be cheaper to produce. This would be in addition to the current model. But who knows? What do we care? We already have our players!

DiGNAN