I think that Fang said something ~$2k w/ the amp. I gave them a brief listen and thought they sounded pretty good. Hard to tell with that much noise but certainly worthy of another listen.
Nick,
Since you can't read that thread, the long and short of it is massive database issues. Doesn't sound like there will be any news until late tomorrow at the absolute earliest.
While I appreciate your perspective I think that you and I probably listen to music in very different ways. I highly doubt that if someone came and changed the cables on my rig from silver in teflon to silver in cotton I'd notice a difference.