Armin,

i am from Europe.

the thing is that our Lexicon importer is very reasonable and price it as US price + VAT.

UK importer (Stuart Robinson i think) is a very nice guy but i don't get were they get those prices from.

Same situation is for Krell, Wadia, etc.

anyway, to be honest for me 9K on processor is too much so i plan to get a demo unit in US and import it by myself.
MC-8 can be found for as low as 4,000$.
MC-12 for 5K$ and demo from dealer for 6K$.

Lexicons have universal power supply.

if i find locally 568 for funny price (like 3$k) i guess i would go for that but our market is very small so i don't think that it will happen.

in any case it's stiil interesting to see answers for 2 original questions:
but this G68ADV price - isn't it too close to 861?
how those 2 products will coexist?

My system:
http://cgi.audioasylum.com/systems/4657.html