I saw that they are planning to charge $80 for them.

Where did you see that? I find that highly doubtful.

When I met Hugo, I complimented him on the fact that the power supply that shipped with the Empeg was a nice one with a separate mains cable. I don't like wall-warts because they take up too much space on the power strip, and I was grateful that the default power supply wasn't a wall-wart. But Hugo said that the Mark 2's would ship with a wall-wart. I assume because those are cheaper and easier to source.

In fact, the Mark 2 will run on less voltage than the Mark 1 did, so a smaller and less expensive power supply would suffice. That should both a) make your search for alternate power supplies easier and b) make the power supplies purchased from Empeg less expensive.

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Tony Fabris