No, $300 doesn't scare me, I just don't feel like paying that much for a waterfall that you can't get parts for. One vendor had a 1971 Pioneer model just like my father brought back from his time in the military, but I tossed it two decades ago because you can't get parts for it, and the entire output chain was blown. That's the kind of stuff I see for sale - Stupid end audio equipment isn't going to show up at these shows because no one is going to pay that much for so little. Maybe at Dayton, but I don't remember seeing anything other than maybe a McIntosh or two. It's just not what we're looking for. I sold all my tube amp stuff years ago. I have other things to spend my electricity budget on besides heating up 300 watts of tungsten so I can get 12W of buzzy noisy amplified shit on a floating chassis because hey we don't care if the transformer is leaky just run the damn thing.