I found the empeg during it's Mk I stage (before they were even being shipped) and got in line when the Mk II's were announced. But it wasn't so much a matter of waiting for the price to come down... it was more of a "when will I have enough capacity at that price to justify it". So in my mind, the empeg wasn't too expensive, the hard drives were. So, knowing that I could upgrade the drives was a big factor. So was this board (not only all the great owners, but especially Hugo posting here helped.) In fact, I bragged that I had posted a few questions and the creator of the empeg actuall answered it! So I knew that even if the company went under, there would be enough of a loyal following to support it (ie, custom lens, kernals, aps, cnc'd facias, etc, etc).

The Video made me need it. The higher capacities and support (this board) justified it.