A $7,000 surround processor from Monster? Somehow, I suspect that the crowd that generally buys $7,000 processors would tend to stick with brands like Lexicon, Arcam, and Anthem Statement over Monster - and the traditional "bling" style (pretty good name for it) of Monster's electronics would start to look particulary cheesy in that price range if they retained it for such a product.

I kind of thought that as well but it seems as though Monster has no problems hanging huge price tags on their merchandise. I saw the blip about it in the Jan 06 Sound and Vision. I kind of like the looks of the thing. It has a 7 inch lcd on the front for set up and would seem to have all the features of a next gen processor but at $7000 I cant see anyone running to pick one of these suckers up. Maybe they will be foolish enough to bring this to market and ebay will be flooded with them in two or three years on the cheap like the amps are now.

Marsh in their Asian factory.

The only things I've read are on AVS forum. Realize this is around the size of a 990, maybe bigger, and way heavier.

I checked out the look of the processor. Personally I don't care for it.

Or Marsh overseas?

I'm not a professional, but maybe I can give you a review in a few weeks. I have a Monster 3250 on UPS due in first of the week.

Marsh amps are also made by ATI.

FM, Bugbitten,
Thanks for the replies.

Well, I decided to pull the trigger and ordered one of these from costco.com today. I am still planning on ordering the 7500/990 combo and will do a comparison between the Monster amp and the 7500...I'll keep the one I like better. If I like the Monster, I'll lose the 2 way shipping costs of the 7500 (but save a few hundred as the Monster is cheaper). If I like the 7500, I'll return the Monster to a local costco and lose $80 for the one way shipping.

I couldn't pass up on the $999 deal from costco...felt like I had to at least give it a shot.

I'll keep everyone posted...

Cheers.

You can visit the Marsh Sound website, they have pictures of their Thai factory.

Bugbitten,
Have you hooked up the 3250 yet? What are your impressions?

Mine arrived from Costco, but I won't have my speakers until July.

-kgt