Don't Marantz and Integra already offer similarly-featured pre-pros for about the same price?
Yep, and ironically Outlaw is selling that Marantz Pre-Pro on their own website! That is why I am still skeptical of the 978 ever coming to market any time soon. Since the price is rumored to be around the range of that same Marantz unit, people are automatically going to make comparisons and decide whether or not the features will justify the purchase of the 978 over the Marantz. The only possibility is that Marantz is already starting to introduce the new "06" line so maybe they will no longer offer a Pre-Pro(7006?)and if they still do, Outlaw will dispense with the Marantz line anyway much in the same way they did when temporarily offering an outdated Onkyo Pre-Pro. All of this done to bide time for something, the question is what?
