I would love to get this but that price is a bit too steep

as far as carrying a standalone audio player goes I’m reminded of my Toshiba gigabeat with rock box installed as the alternative firmware. I loved that thing. I guess I wouldn’t use such a thing now, though, since my phone is pretty good and powerful. But I am still missing a high quality, stand-alone, offline music player for iOS.

It's basically in the same category as Sony's robot dog - an electronic device no one will pay for unless they have more money than they know what to do with.

The land of diminishing returns...