@immatthewj I had thought about a set of the 211FEs and spoke to a few people I know who own them and most end up who resale them is due to them being room heaters. I had that issues with my last two Cary amps, fwiw. I've been watching the retail price on both the 211FEs and the 805RS for the past 3-4 years fairly regularly. Seems if old Billy wants to sell more of them, getting the price down and keeping it down will be key to their future imo.
I spoke with him three years ago about the idea of designing and building some smaller "Classic" monos like the older SLM 70 Monos and closer to my current Quicksilver Mono 120 amps I run now. Thought was something with more available EL34 tubes, maybe a tad less heat, perhaps, or at least lower cost replacement tubes. No dice. He was barely even mildly interested and more involved in the new electronics gadgetry at the time. Imo if he wants to compete, and sell more of the 805RS, will have to drop retail prices even more, and with better Class-D coming along, I think this will continue to need to resurface, and as costly it is to build them, the market will drive the demand. Best of Luck to them in any case.