Optimistic. AF.
I definitely agree this is a game changer. They were already an outlier, I feel. Either demand is low, thus they are raising the price to compensate (not the right formula)... or Stock is low and they are raising the price while working on the next thing (higher cost slows demand to help preserve supply)... Also shipping costs are still high, and they have to pay their people...
Long story short, this could be any number of issues, or a combination of many.
I'm just hoping they aren't going away!
Comparatively, I couldn't get simple questions about the XPA Amps answered when I reached out to Emo. They lost my business for Amps.
Then they can't get their Pre-Pros working right. They lost my possible future business to Mono/Mono HTP-1.
*shrugs
Life's a b!tch. And these are all 21st century, 1st world problems I will gladly take over parasites and poisoned water supplies any day.