best deal i could find in Canada (did not look THAT much though) is a special that ends tonight; down from $1000. to $750.

should have it delivered home by next tuesday.

i just hope that the surround decoding on the Marantz is better than my Yamaha SR-50 dating back from around 1985 that doesn't even have steering logic and filters out the high frequencies in the surround speakers. ;-)