Certainly hard to recommend putting that much money (or even a tenth of that much money) into any of their products at this point. There are so many other good speakers on the market that aren't such a risk and that aren't associated with such wanton mistreatment of their customer base. If you really want some line source speakers, you might look at the used market, but even there you have to be exceptionally careful considering the frequency of manufacturing defects that made it out the door on the LS's over the last year or so. Sean Parque was selling a set of LS6's a couple weeks ago that he had built out himself (online classified here - it's a long story involving AV123 yanking him around for several years, including a six-month delay after sending an incomplete shipment last year that was only resolved because Sean took them to small claims court) that would be a safe choice.