That's a nice catch. Maybe Outlaw is going to throw in the towel with the 978 after all. It's still a Chinese made product, but the 978 would have been made there too. The Marantz has all the "creature comforts" you'd expect on a modern home theater receiver and is competitively priced. Given the choice between these two, I'd take the Marantz 6006 over the proposed 978 7 days a week and twice on Sunday.

Also, this appears to be the same unit (in a Marantz box) as the Denon AVR-3312CI that I mentioned in another thread as a potential competitor to the 978. Interesting.

Best,