It's interesting that the price has gone up, which coincides with what I'm reading about most imports from China. If this trend continues, who knows, maybe one day we'll get back to US-based manufacturing that actually competes on price, too.

I'd half-expected PS Audio to make a Trio-based pair of monos and double the output to 200/400w, but that never happened. There's a few others that have crossed my mind, albeit, at higher prices:

Headroom

Odyssey Audio

Channel Islands

Monarchy Audio

NuForce

I realize these are all much more expensive, but they can be had used for less. The Emotiva is certainly at a bargain-basement price-point, but will it perform at a higher level? Considering Emotiva's track record, the answer is probably yes, but my only question is how does Emotiva do it? It's almost unbelievable.