Total agreement with that the empeg would never become mainstream its just too good.

If you removed most of the features and put more flashy lights on it and had it so you have to upload with a flash chip or something, had an indivdual button for each feature, make the case cheaper and nastier, render it hack proof, give it a really long curious model name and stick an alpine sticker on it then it would probably do better but i wouldn't buy one.