I'm in the market at the moment, too. Mostly on the advice of friend in the business, the Panny G-25 50" is on the short list. They seem to be going for $1,000 to $1,100 right now. He's a little obsessive so the plan is for him to watch price trends and then grab three of them at the appropriate moment around Black Friday at some local big box. (Which may be over complicating things, but what the heck.) There seems to be no dignified way to buy these things. one of the ones he's buying will actually be used on the floor of his high end shop. His distributors are several hundred dollars higher than the big boxes. So, if you want to look at the random panel he bought to demo HT audio stuff, great, you can go see it at his store. But actually buying from store that has decent audition conditions is out of the economic question. It's like when I worked at a camera store as a teenager and one of my duties was to go to K-Mart and buy Polaroid merch at about half what if cost us wholesale. Screwed up world.