If anything is a "nail in the coffin" for the Marantz and competing products I suspect it is their pricing -- the dealers that are still around seem to be interested in only moving complete "starter systems" with inexpensive DACs and such from small manufacturers that sell for $500 or so COMPLETE and then the "no holds barred" stuff that starts around $20,000

The curse of the 99% that once shopped at places like Tweeter is that Best Buy is thisclose to gone...