http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/ Engadget Comments for Hands-on with Marantz's new AV8003 and MM8003 processor / amp pair http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/Jan 9th 2008 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/Jan 9th 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/Jan 9th 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/Jan 9th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/Jan 9th 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/Jan 9th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/
All they've done is pull the amp out and beef it. The 8002 is only 125Wx7.

I'd look for it to be more in the 5k range. The 8002 is 2k list. That is unless they label it as one of their "reference" pieces, and then the price is anyone's guess - 50k?]]>Jan 9th 2008 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/Jan 9th 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/Price is TBD. The "Stack" is going to run $5K (ish). I'm guessing the price will be coming in the high two's. Now, he very much understood what the price point is of Integra 9.8. They suggested that they took a listen to the comp and feel VERY comfortable in its audio quality.

My concern was the video processing. He assured me that the are experts and they did in fact look at all of the powers. I think it they might borrow some expertise from the PJ group if I could read between the lines.

None the less, it is seemingly difficult to ignore the Japanese vendors when it comes to prepro's. IT seems that the list of players is shrinking. ]]>Jan 10th 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/hands-on-with-marantzs-new-av8003-and-mm8003-processor-amp-pair/
This model was a request made by Marantz to Silverstone 2 years ago or so. Silverstone was given some design request (the CW02 has to match Marantz product design) and came out with the CW02.

Take it in black color and you will no doubt see some simililarities with the design of the AV8003.]]>Jan 11th 2008 5:18AM