A trumpet on steroids!! There is a great marketing phrase!! I have no difficulty accepting that your new product would be a killer, in terms of performance. After building and living with your Cornet2 (with Auricap upgrades you recommended), you have more than amply won your case of price/performance at the level of somewhere around 2K retail. I am guessing that a competitor like the EAR 834 has sold >1000-fold more units. This is baffling!! Again, I don't get it. It seems that the key to retail success is to first get a great review, like the EAR did, and the Gram Slee products, then the middle-men line up to sell it, e.g. Music Direct/Audio Advisor/Acoustic Sounds/ Needle Doctor/etc. You seem to be going against the grain, by having your own site and doing your own marketing. Your success relies on a different path. My personal bias is based on the Law of Diminishing Returns......I would bet that your Cornet2 design gets 85% of the Trumpet performance and the Trumpet gets 99% of anything priced at under 10K retail. These price/performance "holes" in the market are created for the sole purpose of marketing illusion. I have no doubt your designs are competitive with anything out there and that your are one skilled designer. I ain't no dummy either, having published 125 peer-reviewed science papers (I don't know Jack about electronics, though my ears work dandy). Just where on that asymptote will the "Trumpet on steroids" fall? Best wishes. I just can't believe how good my Cornet is, I guess I should call it a "Crumpet"...