Originally Posted By: jam

I've been thinking about this very likely possibility lately. Outlaw has a fairly close business relationship with Marantz. They must know or have an idea of what's coming down the pipeline from Marantz. With those rumors of an AV7007 and AV8007, I'm left wondering if Outlaw's silence and lack of communication may just be a holding strategy until those products from Marantz become available at which point Outlaw would announce that they won't be releasing the 978 and that they'll instead sell those two processors from Marantz that cover the same price point as the 978 and beyond.


A release of the Marantz products listed above will pose a great difficulty for Outlaw to make any solid sales on the 978. Worse case senario is that, as some feel, the 978 will be cancelled. The more competition coming out with newer features out there the harder it will be to compete.
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