The AV9000 was a fully integrated AV system consisting of the TV, the control panel and whatever speakers you wished to connect.
The TV part was based on the MX6000 and is the same basic set with a few extra bits such as the stunning design & screen curtains.
The audio part is called the AV9000 control panel and is based on the Ouverture system design but can only be used with the TV and is useless as a stand alone audio system. One of our members - forget who - actually got one to work as a stand alone Hi Fi but the work involved was immense and was more of a technical exercise to prove it could be done!
I wouldn't call the system rare in particular but then again not as common as other pieces from this era. I don't know if the TV was available seperately, but it probably was as they do crop up as such on ebay fairly often.
Chris.
The use of metaphors should be avoided like the plague. They're like a red rag to a bull to me.