Otherwise, you have abosulute control over what you purchase - or not.
With all due respect - that is complete rubbish. It is a simple fact that Meridian has the kind of following that would spend a huge premium on a buggy product just as long as it was made by Meridian. If this exact same product, guts and all, were made by Sony, do you think for one second there would be this much interest even AFTER the product was heard? I reckon that you could put a Meridian badge on an iPod dock, slap a few extra ouputs in it and paint it red to sell it at three times the price of anything else. Oh wait...