I can definitely say I've lost much of my interest in this pre since that thread came up last year. Having gotten a lot of experience with the Naiant products since and considering these are roughly similar in form factor and feature set, I cannot to save my life justify their price tag.
If you check out their other products, they do make some nifty stuff and I'm sure it's all rather high-quality, but the price / feature set isn't anywhere close to where it needs to be.