Marantz, a household name in advanced high-quality home theatre systems, has announced the launch of its new home entertainment solution, the ZR6001SP. The ZR6001SP marks the debut of Marantz's DAvED multi-zone audio distribution technology. Now DAvED stands for Digital Audio via Electrical Distribution - a mechanism through which digital audio signals can be transmitted over existing AC power lines! Awesome!

The Marantz ZR6001SP includes the ZR6001 Audio/Video receiver and the ZC4001 Client. Using these three components consumers can very easily set up a multiple room digital audio distribution system at their homes (using DAvED of course).

This is how a typical setup would look like:

The Marantz ZR6001 is a high-performance home theater receiver that features:

• 7 channels of discrete amplification
• HD component video switching
• Component or S-video up-conversion
• 32-bit DSP processing
• 192kHz/24-bit digital/audio converters for all channels

It delivers 90 watts of power into each of its seven main channels. In addition, Marantz’s new DAvED technology means owners of the ZR6001 can not only use their receiver as the centerpiece of their main home entertainment system, but they can also enjoy virtual wireless audio transmission to any room in the house by just plugging it into any wall socket and having the audio signals transmitted directly to one or more ZC4001 Clients.

With the Marantz ZC4001 Client you can enjoy CD-quality audio in any room inside your house. You can connect up to six such units to the main ZR6001 receiver. It has two high-performance loudspeakers and a built-in amplifier for some great sound. It's finished in light silver cosmetic with an elegant brown trim. It's quite portable too. The remote control provides bi-directional communication, allowing users to control tuners, CD players and other components connected to the ZR6001.

The Marantz ZR6001SP system, including both the ZR6001 receiver and ZC4001 Client, will be available in Spring 2006 at a suggested retail price of US$1,299.99. Additional ZC4001 units will be available at US$329.99 each.

Sounds like a great buy to me.