Yeah, that's why I was asking. I saw it was for sale
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=43866 and ON sale, and a better price/channel ratio than the other options. And I only just barely stumbled on the part of your review that said it didn't bench well. I'd seen good things about the other models, and the fact that just the 7 channel one is bad wouldn't be what you'd naively expect, so I nearly extrapolated the positive comments about the other version and bought the 7 channel version.
So I was wondering whether they fixed the issues or not. If they did, I guess at the very least you have obviously not had an opportunity to re-test.