Ok now that I'm home I can look at the hardware. My ballpark is about $500 - $1000 overpriced (not bad if you're in the "just throw money at it" phase). My concern with this rig wouldn't be the cost, it would be the quality of the build. He doesn't mention any aftermarket cooling, for example, which if you're running long intensive rendering sessions you really need at least a few extra case fans and ideally a beast of a CPU cooler. I'm concerned about the RAM too - while I understand audio is CPU bound if you get too stingy with memory its going to quickly become your new bottleneck. I wouldn't be concerned with size of RAM, more just speed so it can feed that lovely CPU. It would be good to find out if he's leaving you room for upgrades, like free RAM slots and a PCI express slot if you decide to give your eyes a break from that graphics card. Do you need a fancy sound card? I assume sound people have fancy audio jack requirements I know nothing about. Last thing - Eh? Is that a VM, dual boot, or just antivirus? I don't like people installing stuff for me but YMMV.PC nerds, tell me how much of a premium I'm paying for one of these.
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The ad copy allays most of your fears. Besides, I know both of these guys. Water cooling is essential. They also go up to 64GB of RAM. It's also a mammer-jammer server board so expansion room doesn't worry me. My fancy sound cards speak formats you haven't even heard of. 