Its all about marketing (Score 2, Insightful)

They arent trying to sell this system to the average /.er. They are trying to sell this to the millionaire house wife that is tired of sorting through her 250 different Yanni CDs who doesnt know the difference between a sound card and a credit card.

They started the price extremely high for a purpose, the price will come down, but not before a bunch of the technology deficient purchase them.