Apparently the blanks are about $15 a pop. The machine itself seems to be $10000 and always has been. It looks like it can only record 15 minutes a side, though. I was hoping it could write out an entire album.
When they say that the cutting stylus will explode from wide freq var, I feel sorry for the club scene DJ shlep gets this without training and goes through a few of those cutters in trial and error at $500 each.