Just wanted to know how long is the wait once you are in queue. According to the Empeg website, my number is 9054. Does this mean there are 9,053 other people ahead of me?

No, it means that there were 9,053 registrations at the website before you since they went online (more than a year ago, before they even shipped a Mark 1). That doesn't mean they have to sell 9053 players, it means that 9053 people registered an interest in the player before you. Not all of those registrations are valid, and even out of the valid registrations, only a fraction of those will actually buy a player.

And if so, what's the rate of order fufillment?

That's hard to say, since you can't really know what percentage of those registrations will follow through with a purchase. But here's a (possibly incorrect) indicator:

If I remember correctly, they said they got up to registration number 6500 or so. Out of those 6500, they only shipped 350 or so players (if I'm remembering the numbers correctly). If my math is right, that's only about a 5% sell-through from the registrations. Assuming that ratio holds for the Mark 2's (and there's no reason to assume it will, but just for argument's sake...)

So, let's see...
9054-6500=2554.
2554*5%=~128.

So you will probably be well within their first batch of 1000 players, probably within the first 200. Meaning that you'll probably get your invitation to buy very soon, and see your player within a month.

Then again, all of our numeric assumptions could be completely wrong, and all of this could be completely meaningless.

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Tony Fabris