The '506 nominally would not be able to project an ILDA Test Pattern that wide in the typical and lowest cost configuration. I expect around 14 degrees with the ILDA test pattern at 30K, and that's what we showed the Kvant amp doing in our video.
Note that the EMS-8000 uses an H-Bridge while our little Compact scanner nominally would not. HOWEVER, our new little amp can be configured in an H-bridge configuration, but you'd give up the dual-axis capability. In such a case it would project much wider -- perhaps even accomplishing what you wrote above. (So it means one amp dual-axis, or two amps single-axis each.) But this is in a bit of a vacuum now since I haven't seen the EMS-8000 with my own eyes. I generally like to evaluate the performance others are getting before stating what ours will and will not do... By the way, the "two amps single-axis each" configuration will also allow faster-than-30K performance for the same reason EMS delivers faster-than-30K. And yes, this would be substantially less than $1400. Perhaps less than $600 for this "two amps single-axis each" configuration. We'll have to see how our costs play out.
By the way, if you didn't mean the ILDA test pattern at 35 degrees but everything else at 35 degrees, then you are no doubt correct. What we showed in our video was pretty hard-to-reproduce content running at 30K and over 50 degrees!
Your guess is probably a bit in reverse. We've been delivering Saturn 5 to people who already have their own amps since last January. Yep, that's a year already! The main thing holding back the sale of the others was our own amp. In fact we're committed to delivering several Saturn 1 systems with our DSP amp later this month! We should be in a pretty good production mode by next month.
For '506, that will be an encore performance of Saturn. We should be able to replenish our stock and start delivering JUST SCANNERS in a few weeks. But the little amp may have to wait until April or so. The design and layout are done, but production is a matter of priority insomuch as how we allocate production capacity among the different products we make (QM2000, FB3, Mach DSP, even FB4).
Regarding price, you'd be in the ballpark at $1500 for budgetary pricing on anything in the Saturn series. We're still dialing that in. For Compact, we're trying to hit the same price that people are paying for DT-40, but due to the digital nature of the amp, performance should be much better.
Bill