I'm the first (well maybe not the first, the queue is always long) to criticise high end/boutique pricing, but why is this unit/company getting such derision.
Let's add Light Harmonic, Msb, Audio Note to the parade of "shame".
It seems like there is some really interesting stuff going on, and it's never going to sell more than a few units, so let's judge it's marketplace as thus.
Whether I'd want to buy from a company w/such limited provenance, that's another matter.
It's taken Ypsilon and Audio Analysis to be around for over a decade before track record is not questioned.