Don't get carried away there, dude. Whining is one thing -- that's what everyone else is doing; obliquely referring to violence is entirely yet another -- that's what you're doing.
Hirsch -- just like everyone else -- can sell his HF-1's anywhere, anyway, and at any price he wants to -- you don't have to buy them.
Although in all likelihood, he'll probably just sell them to Juan or something.
Thank god I don't want one. I remember when I wanted an HP-2 -- I remember there was one guy buying them on Audiogon, and selling them for a profit at Head-Fi -- I was so pissed. Then I got one, and stopped caring.
Now I feel the same way about K1000's. Do you remember when Headroom was blowing them out?!?!? Argh. Just...argh.
And tubes -- don't even get me started about tubes.