Sometimes a person can be too hung up on a particular brand name. Marantz makes some very fine equipment.

Not to hijack the thread, but i was at a Sony training course the other day where I quizzed the speaker about Plasma lifespans and LCD Dead pixels. He brushed around the topic of the Plasma life span saying that they'll last just as long as a regular CRT tube TV because they use the the same chemical gas to illuminate the screen. He also completely made my Dead LCD Pixel question seem like a myth saying that it VERY rarely happens, which is stupid cause I know for a fact it happens quite often??
What are other peoples opinions on this? I think he was just being a regular rep by not telling the other idiot guests there cause they might go and tell consumers about faults on the technology.