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Originally Posted by Sascha Franck

This absolutely sucks for us europeans. The best price you can get for it over here is around €3,175 (for the combo). Yeah you're reading right. That currently translates to US$4,471. More than double the price just because of shipping and some taxes? For that amount of money, I could book a flight, look for a dealer selling me two of them and arranging whatever "special deal" (in terms of shipping and taxes), sell one of the amps and be done for 500 Euros expense at best. No wonder people are really doing everything to cheat with taxes and customs.
Seriously, european music shops are all run by criminals, simply because there's absolutely *no* way shipping, taxes, customs and what not could even remotely make up for such a horrible price difference on a single amp.

Fwiw, I own a MkIV and quite love it, but both the green and red channels leave something to be desired for my personal needs (I love the yellow channel). A MkV could be the defenite answer, but I will never pay that much money for it, and right now I don't have enough time to arrange a flight to the USA, some dealer search and what not. In addition, I don't think a MkV would accept 220V, so I might have to get the PSU replaced, too.

Cheers
Sascha

look at the bright side, you get to wait in line to see a doctor. I kinda want to demo the MK V a few days before I take the plunge. I will need a good return policy.