When I first discovered the empeg, it was way over what I could afford at the time. watched it for a year maybe and started to forget about it. My friend called one Christmas much later though and pointed out the sale on them, at which point I rekindled all my old passions for it and went ahead and got one (also making more money then too).

Interesting, the poll is about 50/50, actually biased a bit towards us late bloomers. I guess it doesn't surprise me much.